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UNINA9910790414003321 |
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Autore |
Foust Clifford M. <1928-> |
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John Frank Stevens : civil engineer / / Clifford Foust |
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Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (360 pages) |
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Collana |
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Railroads past and present |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Railroad engineers - United States |
Railroad engineering - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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A boy of West Gardiner -- Beginnings -- The Great Northern -- The Panama Canal : in -- The Panama Canal : out -- Interlude -- Railroading in Russia -- The final decades. |
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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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