Engineering

The Visual Index to the Virtual Archive is an innovative visually-based interface that uses a 3-D computer model of Manhattan as a click-on map, allowing Web visitors to view the city, present and past, and to access the Museum's collections through an on-line, searchable database. The idea of a visual index to the collection recognizes the importance of graphic representation in both the medium of the website and in the way that visitors, virtual or actual, come to understand and comprehend a city through its geography and landmarks.

Neither financier nor broker Charles Dow was a journalist. The stock averages he devised provided a window for outsiders to view the market; Wall Street types were welcome to use it, but they were not his chief concern.

When Dow came to Wall Street, the investment market of choice was bonds. Investors liked securities that were backed by real machinery, factories and other hard assets. They felt reassured by the predictability of income that bonds offered, as well as the specific dates of maturity when their principle would be returned. The stock market, by contrast, dealt in "shares of ownership" which had no specific claim on anything a company owned.

To veterans of the Naval Air Station Glenview (“NASG”), and to many long-time residents of Glenview, the decision in April 1993 to close NASG was devastating news. Over its 58-year history, NASG played important military roles in four major wars and in peacetime readiness, provided homeland security, and was part of shaping the culture of Glenview. NASG was home base for many of Chicago’s annual air and water shows, and when the Blue Angels, Thunderbirds or any number of high-tech military aircraft were stationed here, the ultimate air performances were over the skies of Glenview.

Gentlemen:
It gives me great pleasure to be enabled to report the Niagara Suspension Rail Way Bridge complete in all its parts. The success of this work may now be considered an established fact. The trains of the New York Central, and of the Great Western Rail Road in Canada, have been crossing regularly since the 18th of March, averaging over 30 trips per day.
One single observation of the passage of a train over the Niagara Bridge, will convince the most skeptical, that the practicability of Suspended Railway Bridges, so much doubted heretofore, has been successfully demonstrated.

Conde B. McCullough was the head of the Bridge Division of the Oregon Department of Transportation from 1920-1935. In that position, he was personally responsible for the design and construction of 162 of the most beautiful and functional bridges in the United States. Virtually all of the bridges that make up the Oregon Coast Highway 101 (formally known as the Roosevelt Military Highway) are McCullough designs. The highway was just beginning to be paved in 1927 and had no permanent crossings of the numerous rivers that line the Oregon coast. By 1932, the highway was paved, but it wasn't until 1936 when the three final bridges were completed over Coos Bay, Alsea Bay and Yaquina Bay that the highway was complete.

In London, arguments about the redevelopment of the area around the Thames River are becoming heated again. However, until recently, the riverside redevelopment plan centered around the Dockland, which was spotlighted in the '80's, had seemed to have faced a setback from 1990, due to the rapidly deteriorating English economic environment. In actuality, even today, the Dockland area, mainly Surrey and Canary Wharf, cannot be described as rejuvenated, and moreover, the economy has not arrived at an upswing. Even then, the arguments about the Thames River are becoming heated among a specific group.

Cubitt's first waterway project was the Norwich & Lowestoft Navigation, then he engineered the straightening of the northern part of the Oxford Canal. He became Telford's successor on what is now known as the Shropshire Union Canal and on the Ulster Canal. His largest waterway scheme was the improvement of the River Servern, including building four locks and weirs.

Docks schemes included Lowestoft, Ellesmere Port, Cardiff and Middlesbrough.

FRITZ LEONHARDT, professor and former rector (president) of Stuttgart University, Germany, died on December 30, 1999. He was born in Stuttgart and received his university education at Stuttgart University. He carried on graduate studies at Purdue University in 1932 and 1933, returning to Stuttgart University to obtain his doctorate of engineering in 1938.

In 1939, after his collaboration with Wolfhart Andra, in the successful design of Europe's largest suspension bridge across the Rhine at Cologne, he formed the partnership of Leonhardt Andra and Partners, which became one of the world's best-known designers of major bridges.