John Frank Stevens : civil engineer / / Clifford Foust
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| Autore: |
Foust Clifford M. <1928->
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| Titolo: |
John Frank Stevens : civil engineer / / Clifford Foust
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (360 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 625.10092 |
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| Soggetto topico: | Railroad engineers - United States |
| Railroad engineering - History | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | A boy of West Gardiner -- Beginnings -- The Great Northern -- The Panama Canal : in -- The Panama Canal : out -- Interlude -- Railroading in Russia -- The final decades. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | John Frank Stevens |
| ISBN: | 0-253-01069-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826394703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Railroads Past and Present