Directory of People Resources

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This category is for listing sites about individual builders and designers who have made significant contributions in the field of bridge construction and design.

Subcategories

• Ammann, Othmar
• Arrol, Sir William
• Baker, Sir Benjamin
• Beedy, Daniel
• Berlin Iron Bridge Company
• Boller, Alfred Pancoast
• Bollman, Wendle
• Bouch, Thomas
• Bradfield, J. J. C.
• Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
• Buck, Leffert
• Calatrava, Santiago
• Cardoso, Edgar
• Cooper, Theodore
• Cret, Paul Philippe
• Cubitt, Sir William
• Darby, Abraham
• Dredge, James
• Eads, James
• Eiffel, Gustave Alexandre
• Ellet, Charles
• Figg, Eugene
• Fink, Albert
• Finley, James
• Fox, Sir Charles
• Illinois & St. Louis Bridge Company
• Keystone Bridge Company
• King Bridge Company
• Lennox, David
• Leonhardt, Fritz
• Lindenthal, Gustav
• Maillart, Robert
• McCullough, Conde B
• Modjeski, Ralph
• Monash, John
• Morison, George Shattuck
• Palladio, Andrea
• Palmer, Timothy
• Perronet, Jean-Rodolphe
• Phoenix Bridge Company
• Rennie, John
• Roebling, Johann Augustus
• Steinman, David Bernard
• Stephenson, George
• Strauss, Joseph Baerman
• Telford, Thomas
• Town, Ithiel
• Watson, Wilbur J
• Whipple, Squire
• Wrought Iron Bridge Company

Resources in This Category

• Memoir of the Iron Bridge over the Missouri River

  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;rgn=full+text;idno=AGW8473.0001.001;didno=AGW8473.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000003
  Record of the construction by the Detroit Bridge and Iron Works between 1871 - 1873.

• Sir John Fowler and the Forth Railway Bridge

  http://www.chrishobbs.com/johnfowlerforthrail.htm
  Illustrated biographical essay.

• The 150th Combat Engineer Battalion

  http://www.150th.com/rivers/index.htm
  Newspaper articles, pictures, stories, and commendations of the bridges built and rivers crossed.

• The Bridges that Éblé Built

  http://www.wtj.com/articles/berezina/
  The story of the bridges built for the French Army's 1812 crossing of the Berezina River.

• The Burr Truss

  http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/tech/burr.htm
  Illustrated article discusses the early development of the wooden truss in the United States. Provides references for further reading.

 

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