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Blair Birdsall Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0175
Abstract
This collection contains the technical and professional documents of consulting engineer Blair Birdsall. Most of the collection are documents pertaining to the multitude of bridges he worked on, including the Golden Gate, Chesapeake Bay, and Brooklyn Bridges, as a consulting engineer or as a design engineer. The collection spans from 1900 to 2002 covering his entire career and also early Steinman Boynton Gronquist & Birdsall and John A. Roebling Sons Engineering companies.
Dates:
Inclusive Dates
Found in:
Lehigh University Grant Projects
Civil Engineering Works Photograph Collection
Item
Identifier: SC Photo-0020
Abstract
The collection of photographs illustrate various types of civil engineering works including the Whipple through truss railroad bridge, Pennsylvania through truss bridge, suspension bridges, cantilever bridges, reinforced concrete arch bridges and buttress dams. Among the bridge photographs are included the Brooklyn Bridge, the Firth of Forth Bridge, the Tay Bridge and Niagara Falls “Honeymoon” Bridge collapses, the Pecos River railroad trestle bridge and the “Luten Design” reinforced...
Dates:
1879-1984; Majority of material found within 1879-1984
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Professor Mansfield Merriman Lecture Notes Taken by Edgar A. Borhek, 1904
Collection
Identifier: SC MS0266
Abstract
The lecture notes reflect an interesting view into the field of civil engineering at the turn of the twentieth century. The notes indicate that a student in civil engineering was expected to have a multidisciplinary diversity. Some examples given in the lectures illustrate the broad field of knowledge possessed by Professor Mansfield Merriman.
Dates:
1904
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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- Adams County (Ohio) 1
- Alvsborg Bridge (Gothenburg, Sweden) 1
- Ambassador International Bridge (Detroit, Michigan) 1
- American River Bridge, California 1
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- Boulder Dam Bridge (AZ) [Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge] 1
- Bridge engineering 1
- Bronx-Whitestone Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel (NY) [Hugh L. Carey Tunnel] 1
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- Cantilever bridges 1
- Cemetery Bridge, Benton Harbor, Michigan 1
- Chains 1
- Chesapeake Bay Bridge (Maryland) 1
- Chester Bridge (Chester, Illinois) 1
- Chicago Drainage Canal 1
- Cicott Street Bridge, Logansport, Indiana 1
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- Composite materials -- Testing 1
- Concrete 1
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- Covington-Cincinnati Bridge (Cincinnati, Ohio) [John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge] 1
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- Daule River Bridge (Guayaquil, Ecuador) [National Unity Bridge] 1
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- Delaware River Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Dodge Street (Lincoln Highway) Bridge (Omaha, NE) 1
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- Garden State Parkway (New Jersey) 1
- George Washington Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.) 1
- Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
- Grand Mère Suspension Bridge (Quebec, Canada) 1
- Harlem River (N.Y.) 1
- Hartford Bridge. 1
- Henry Hudson Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Hutsonville Bridge (Hutsonville, Illinois) 1
- Island Park Bridge, Winfield, Kansas 1
- James River Bridge, Virginia 1
- Karnali Bridge (Nepal) 1
- Lecture notes 1
- Lehigh Canal (Pa.) 1
- Mackinac Bridge (Mich.) 1
- Maldonado Bridge (Uruguay) 1
- Manhattan Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Martin-Pena Canal (Puerto Rico) 1
- Materials--Testing 1
- Mauch Chunk and Summit Hill Railroad 1
- Maumee River Bridge, Waterville, Ohio 1
- Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge (Ariz. and Nev.) 1
- Morris Canal (N.J.) 1
- Mount Hope Bridge (Bristol, Rhode Island) 1
- Musconetong Tunnel 1
- New York State Thruway (New York) 1
- Niagara River Bridge 1
- Niagara Tunnel 1
- Packer Hall 1
- Panama Bridge (Panama) [Centennial Bridge?] 1
- Panama Canal (Panama) 1
- Park Avenue Viaduct (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Pecos River Bridge 1
- Pecos River High Bridge, Texas 1
- Plates (Engineering) 1
- Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) 1
- Reinforced Concrete 1
- Reinforced concrete 1
- Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct/Bridge (Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania) 1
- Saskatchewan River Bridge, Saskatoon, Canada 1
- Sciotoville Railroad Bridge (Sciotoville, Ohio) 1
- Severn Bridge (England : Railroad bridge) 1
- Shawnee Bridge, Piqua, Ohio 1
- St. John’s Bridge (Portland, Oregon) 1
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- Ambursen, Nils Frederick, 1876-1953 1
- Champion Bridge Company 1
- Drinker, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1850-1937 1
- Gardner, David I. 1
- Harrington, Howard & Ash Engineers 1
- Luten Bridge Company 1
- Luten Engineering Company 1
- Luten, Daniel B., 1869-1946 1
- Merriman, Mansfield, 1848-1925 1
- National Bridge Company 1
- Pennsylvania Railroad Company 1
- Phoenix Bridge Company 1
- Sale, Madison 1
- Shelton, Thomas J. 1
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company 1
- Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company 1
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