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John Frank Stevens : Civil Engineer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Railroads past and presentPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (360 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253010698
  • 0253010691
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: John Frank Stevens : Civil Engineer.DDC classification:
  • 625.10092
LOC classification:
  • TF140.S755 .F68 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A Boy of West Gardiner; 2 Beginnings; 3 The Great Northern; 4 The Panama Canal: In; 5 The Panama Canal: Out; 6 Interlude; 7 Railroading in Russia; 8 The Final Decades; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Summary: 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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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A Boy of West Gardiner; 2 Beginnings; 3 The Great Northern; 4 The Panama Canal: In; 5 The Panama Canal: Out; 6 Interlude; 7 Railroading in Russia; 8 The Final Decades; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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