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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
Fritz Engineering Laboratory “Project 237” Documents
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0143
Abstract
“Project 237” was created by the Lehigh University Department of Civil Engineering for the purpose of recording Fritz Engineering Laboratory research history. During the decades, especially from the earliest days of the first decade (1910) of operation to the mid 1980s, Fritz Engineering Laboratory was a center of important civil engineering research doing research that would be included in the nation’s building specifications such as AASHTO, ACI, ASTM, AWS. The Lab was known worldwide for...
Dates:
1952-2007
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections