Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Wax Lake Bridge Construction Photographs 1940-1941
Collection — Box: PHOTO 0009.01
Identifier: SC Photo-0009
Abstract
A collection of construction photographs of a steel railroad bridge erected on a dry flat plain which eventually became a Mississippi River floodway channel. The channel beneath the bridge elements was dredged after the bridge was constructed. This construction procedure was in reverse of the usual building process. Construction by Bethlehem Steel began in late 1940 and completed in early 1941. The reverse building process was unusual at the time. The bridge is also known as the Wax Lake...
Dates:
1940-1941
William J. Eney papers
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0117
Abstract
Documents and photographs related to Lehigh University Civil Engineering faculty William J. Eney's early teaching years (1930s) at civil engineering summer camps (Canadensis, Pa.) including his lecture documents on bridge engineering, his own invention of testing equipment, correspondence between Smithsonian Institution and Lehigh University about Eney Deformeter, photographs and documents about construction of Fritz Engineering Laboratory addition and Baldwin Universal Testing Machine...
Dates:
1900 - 1982
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- Subject: Bridges-- X
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- Baldwin Universal Testing Machine 1
- Bridges – Québec (Province) -- Québec. 1
- Bridges – Switzerland 1
- Bridges-- 1
- Calumet Bridge 1
- Canadensis (Pa.) 1
- Civil engineering 1
- Civil engineering--Study and teaching 1
- Civil engineers 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- Correspondences 1
- Eney deformeter 1
- Environmental Engineering 1
- Flood control -- Mississippi River 1
- Fritz Engineering Laboratory. 1
- Lehigh University -- Alumni and alumnae 1
- Lehigh University -- Campus 1
- Lehigh University – Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering 1
- Lehigh University--Faculty 1
- Morganza (La.) 1
- Photographs 1
- Pocono Mountains 1
- Railroad bridges 1
- Skytop Lodge 1
- Smithsonian Institution 1
- Steel--Testing 1
- Structural engineering 1
- Summer survey camps 1
- TELSTAR Satellite 1
- Wax Lake Bridge 1
- Wax Lake Outlet Railway Bridge 1
- black-and-white negatives 1 ∧ less
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