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John Frank Stevens : Civil Engineer.
One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Ro...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2013.
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| Collection: | Railroads past and present.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, creating a technical achievement far ahead of its time. Stevens also served for more than five years as the head of the US Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and as a consultant who contributed to many engineering feats, including the contro. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (360 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253010698 0253010691 |