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Structures of Leonhardt, Andra and Partners

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Engineering
  • Exhibit
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://nisee.berkeley.edu/leonhardt/

Author: 
National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
Excerpt: 

In developing the STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING SLIDE LIBRARY as a comprehensive resource for teaching structural and architectural engineering at college and university level, I felt there was a need to devote a volume to the work of one structural design company. Leonhardt, Andrä and Partners of Stuttgart, Germany, was an ideal choice for this project. One of Europe’s leading structural design companies, its staff has been on the leading edge of many developments in engineering over the past 40 years. Their name has been particularly associated with the development of incrementally launched bridges, cable-stayed bridges, cable-net structures, and prestressed concrete television towers.

Annotation: 

The University of California at Berkeley has compiled a sizeable archive of slides of work by Leonhardt, Andrä and Partners of Stuttgart, Germany. Images are categorized according to their architectural characteristics, the type of material used, or the type of structure pictured. Text content also details some of the structures pioneered by the architecture firm. Useful for architectural case studies and research.

Lorain-Carnegie Bridge in Cleveland by Wilbur J Watson

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Engineering
  • Library/Archive
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/lcbridge/

Author: 
Cleveland State University Library
Excerpt: 

From southeast to northwest, Cleveland is traversed by the winding Cuyahoga river valley, which, while it provides the railroads with an effective entrance to the city, cuts it into two distinct districts as far as vehicular traffic is concerned. To provide crossings over the river and its wide valley, several bridges have been builds, notably the Detroit-superior Bridge near the lakefront and the central viaduct to the south. After 25 years of study on viaduct to connect Lorain avenue on the west of the river with the district to the east, in The Course of which time the project was once abounded after bonds had actually been voted for construction, the citizens of Cleveland are opening, the first week in the November, a $6500000 viaduct 5,865 ft. long, with its eastern terminus at central avenue. Dr. Watson's interest in the project has been continuos since its inception.

Annotation: 

Full text of Watson's paper published in Civil Engineering 1932.

Modern Examples of Road and Railway Bridges

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Engineering
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Primary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://bridges.lib.lehigh.edu/books/book1321.html

Author: 
Digital Bridges, Lehigh University
Excerpt: 

The theory of the equilibrium of arches, until of late years, commanded but little attention from practical men, partly owing to the fact that, since it was derived from observations of their own failures and successes, it came rather too late to be of much service to them, but chiefly owing to the form in which it was presented by mathematicians, who, by giving a fictitious importance to insignificant matters, effectually obscured the broad truth, that the whole question was essentially a comparatively simple problem of weight and leverage.

Annotation: 

This archived Digital Bridges document reviews some engineering techniques on the forefront of bridge-building technology in the late 19th century. Like many similar period documents, the bulk of the work is textual and the sentences too convoluted for casual reading; the document was likely intended for readers already educated in the subject. However, there are also some useful lithographs in the book, and the entire document shows the direction in which engineers believed bridge-building would be headed in the coming years.

John Monash's Contribution to 20th Century Engineering in Australia. Conference Paper, Canberra, Oct. 2001. (Alan Holgate and Ge

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Biographical
  • Engineering
  • Government
  • Library/Archive
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~aholgate/jm/papers/jm_aust_engg.html

Author: 
Alan Holgate, VICNET, the State Library of Victoria (Australia)
Annotation: 

This paper, delivered to The Eleventh National Conference on Engineering Heritage (Institution of Engineers, Australia) in October 2001, provides a full biography of John Monash; Holgate and Taplin discuss his career arc in general, but delve into more depth on the techniques he chose to use in his work. The report has an enormous bibliography and an extensive citation system; in many cases, integrated links send users to the full story behind a reference that the authors made.

Album of Designs of the Phoenix Bridge Company

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Engineering
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Primary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://bridges.lib.lehigh.edu/books/book1621.html

Author: 
Digital Bridges, Lehigh University
Excerpt: 

Since the presentation of our last album in 1873, the rapid increase in the variety and amount of out business, in the design and manufacture of bridges and of all kinds of structures of iron and steel, renders it necessary for us to exhibit to the public, and to our friends and customers particularly, the present state of constructive engineering as existing at the works of the Phoenix Bridge Company.

Annotation: 

The Digital Bridges project at Lehigh University has archived and posted this 1885 publication in html, pdf, and tiff formats. The summary of affairs of the Phoenix Bridge Company and its subsidiaries provides a fascinating look into bridge and railroad technology in the 1880s. Though the majority of the book is text, many clear photographs of the company's work are interspersed between the typed pages. Any researchers of railroad and bridge history, as well as of the business of transportation, would do well to examine this document. Also see "Album of Designs of the Phoenixville Bridge-Works."

King Iron Bridge Company

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Engineering
  • Library/Archive
  • Links
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Secondary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/king/

Author: 
Cleveland State University Library
Excerpt: 

The King Iron Bridge Co. played an important role in the development and construction of metal truss bridges, a product of American engineering and construction technology, nationwide during the later part of the Nineteenth Century. The King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Co. was organized under that name in Cleveland in 1871 by Zenas King, who had started his career in building bridges in 1858. King came to Cleveland from Cincinnati around 1861, and by 1865 had established his works on Wason (East 38th St.) between St. Clair and Hamilton Avenue. The Company moved to a larger plant on Ruskin Ave.(East 69th St.) around 1888.

Annotation: 

Company history and a salesman's catalog for ordering components.

Leading The Way: Sir John Monash

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Biographical
  • Engineering
  • Exhibit
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/magpie/exhibitions/sirjohn/sirjohn.html

Author: 
Kathryn Dan, Manager and University Archivist, Monash University
Excerpt: 

Debate about the descriptor for Victoria's second university was not prolonged and through an enabling Act 1958, Monash University became one of a very few universities in the world named after a military hero. Of German-Jewish immigrant stock Sir John Monash was Australian, indeed Victorian, to the core and is still regarded as Australia's greatest fighting General. He was possessed of such diverse talents that his scholastic failures as a young man serve to remind us that even great men are human and that focus, application and determination are key ingredients for success as much in academia as in other spheres of life.

Annotation: 

This online exhibition features biographical information about engineer John Monash, from his early life, to his time as a soldier, to his lengthy professional life in Australia. However, the true gem of the site is the collection of photographs and other memorabilia donated by the Monash family, such as baby photographs of Monash and scanned facsimilies of his commisions from the Australian government. Though the exhibition has only four web pages of content, the Monash artifacts are scattered on every page, and they are a perfect accompaniment to the data on Wabash himself.

John Monash's Engineering

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Engineering
  • Government
  • Library/Archive
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~aholgate/jm/jm_intro.html

Author: 
Alan Holgate, VICNET, the State Library of Victoria (Australia)
Excerpt: 

John Monash ran a successful engineering business chiefly in Victoria (Australia) but also in South Australia and to some extent Tasmania from 1894 to 1914. He pursued a parallel career in the Citizen Military Forces. Late in 1914, at the age of 49, he left for WW1 and gained fame as a commander of ANZAC and allied forces on the Western Front. On his return he played a leading role in the establishment of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria.

This website presents stories of engineering design and construction from the period prior to WW1, with photographs and drawings. No technical knowledge is required to follow the stories which contain much human interest.

Annotation: 

Research project established to serve as a channel of information concerning the engineering work of John Monash between 1894 and 1914.

Album of Designs of the Phoenixville Bridge-Works

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Engineering
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Primary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://bridges.lib.lehigh.edu/books/book1611.html

Author: 
Digital Bridges, Lehigh University
Excerpt: 

See "Album of Designs of the Phoenix Bridge Company."

Annotation: 

Facsimile of this 1873 publication of railway bridges. Produced by Clark, Reeves & Co. before change to Phoenix Bridge. Also available in pdf and tiff formats.

Wendell Bollman - Civil and Constructing Engineer.

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Engineering
  • Government
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://external.bcpl.lib.md.us/hcdo/cfdocs/photopage.cfm?id=11071

Author: 
Baltimore County Public Library Legacy Web
Excerpt: 

Mid-19th century advertisement for Wendell Bollman from a City Directory , a civil and constructing engineer noted for his truss bridges. An engraving in the ad. shows a truss bridge with a Civil War era locomotive about to cross it. The address for Bollman's works was given as Clinton Street and Second Avenue, Canton.

Annotation: 

Facsimile of a mid-19th century advertisement from a City directory.

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