Lehigh University
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Engineering Field Books 1893-1910
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0253
Abstract
Interesting examples of engineering calculations and observations before the age of computers. Some books have calculations recording the Lehigh River flow and flood stages as well as New York City engineering works at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dates:
1893-1910; Majority of material found within 1901-1902
Robert Blum Olney Bridge Design Class Notebook
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0226
Abstract
This manuscript contains three bridge
design class exercises indicating the instructional process to train engineering
students. Specific step-by-step instruction in designing for various railroad bridge
spans, building material specifications, structural loads and stresses to be
considered as presented in the professor’s lecture. The complete process of
calculating the design with comparisons of different conditions, as well as material
available, costs incurred of every aspect of the...
Dates:
1891 - 1892
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- Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 1
- Belmont Tunnel New York City 1
- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1
- Bridge engineering 1
- Bridges 1
- Civil engineering 1
- Civil engineers 1
- East River, New York 1
- Englewood, New Jersey 1
- Eyebar pin-connected bridges 1
- Fink Truss bridge 1
- Flatbush Avenue Terminal 1
- Hudson River, New York 1
- Jersey City (N.J.) 1
- Lehigh River (Pa.) 1
- Long Island City 1
- Monocacy Creek, Bethlehem, PA. 1
- New York City 1
- Pratt Truss bridge 1
- Railroad bridges 1
- Saucon Creek, Northampton County, Pennsylvania 1
- Transportation 1
- Truss bridges 1
- Warren truss 1
- Wrought iron 1 ∧ less
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