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Photo Album of Bridges by G. W. Philips
Collection — Volume: PHOTO0018.01
Identifier: SC Photo-0018
Abstract
The album contains a collection of photographs of six Pennsylvania bridges and several railroad works possibly inspected by G. W. Philips in a period from 1900 to 1930. Perhaps the most well-known Pennsylvania bridge is the multi concrete arch Hyner Bridge over the Susquehanna River near Renovo, Pennsylvania. The Hell Gate Bridge over the East River in New York City is an anomaly among the construction photographs in the album as the only New York bridge. The album is an interesting...
Dates:
1900-1930; Majority of material found within 1900-1930
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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