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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

Lynn S. Beedle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0288
Abstract A varied assortment of documents collected by Lynn S. Beedle, professor of structural engineering, former head of Fritz Engineering Laboratory research, and founder of the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat at Lehigh University. Included among the documents are records of his U.S. Navy career observing the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. Also included in the collection are student reports written by Beedle during his graduate student days as well as reports written by...
Dates: 1948-1968

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Lehigh University Grant Projects 2
Lehigh University Special Collections 1
 
Subject
Bridges 2
Cantilever bridges 2
Chains 2
Civil engineering 2
Columns 2
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Composite materials -- Testing 2
Concrete 2
Frames 2
Friction 2
Materials--Testing 2
Plates (Engineering) 2
Railroad bridges 2
Reinforced concrete 2
Stability 2
Steel 2
Stresses and strains 2
Suspension bridges 2
Torsion 2
Towers 2
Trusses 2
Welds 2
Wires 2
Aircraft carriers 1
Aluminum 1
Alvsborg Bridge (Gothenburg, Sweden) 1
Ambassador International Bridge (Detroit, Michigan) 1
Angus L. Macdonald Bridge (Halifax - Dartmouth) 1
Arches 1
Atomic bomb 1
Automobiles 1
Beams and Girders 1
Beedle Family 1
Bending 1
Bethlehem (Pa.) 1
Bidwell Bar Bridge (Oroville, California) 1
Biloxi, Mississippi 1
Blaw-Knox Pipe Line Bridge (Charleston, Tennessee) 1
Blueprints 1
Bolts and nuts 1
Boulder Dam Bridge (AZ) [Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge] 1
Bronx-Whitestone Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel (NY) [Hugh L. Carey Tunnel] 1
Bucksport Suspension Bridge (Bucksport, Maine) [Waldo-Hancock Bridge?] 1
Buildings 1
Cameras 1
Carbon steel 1
Chesapeake Bay 1
Chesapeake Bay Bridge (Maryland) 1
Chester Bridge (Chester, Illinois) 1
Chicago, Illinois 1
Civil engineering--Study and teaching 1
Civil engineers 1
Column Research Council 1
Correspondence 1
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 1
Covington-Cincinnati Bridge (Cincinnati, Ohio) [John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge] 1
Dams 1
Daule River Bridge (Guayaquil, Ecuador) [National Unity Bridge] 1
Deer Isle Bridge (Me.) 1
Deflection 1
Deformation 1
Delaware Memorial Bridge (New Castle, Delaware) 1
Delaware River Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Detroit, Michigan 1
Dodge Street (Lincoln Highway) Bridge (Omaha, NE) 1
Dredges 1
Dundee, Scotland 1
East Boston Bridge 1
East Fredericktown Vesta Coal Preparation Plant 1
Edinburgh, Scotland 1
Electronics 1
Flanges 1
Florianopolis Bridge (Hercilio Luz Bridge, Brazil) 1
Forth Road Bridge (Scotland) 1
Fremont Bridge (Seattle, Wash.) 1
Fritz Engineering Laboratory. 1
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
Hartford Bridge. 1
Henry Hudson Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
Hooks 1
Hutsonville Bridge (Hutsonville, Illinois) 1
Hydraulic structures 1
Karnali Bridge (Nepal) 1
Lehigh University -- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 1
Levees 1
Mackinac Bridge (Mich.) 1
Maldonado Bridge (Uruguay) 1
Martin-Pena Canal (Puerto Rico) 1
Mathematical models 1
Mount Hope Bridge (Bristol, Rhode Island) 1
New York State Thruway (New York) 1
Niagara River Bridge 1
Notebooks 1
Nuclear weapons -- Testing 1
Panama Bridge (Panama) [Centennial Bridge?] 1
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Names
Beedle, Lynn S. 2
Eney, William J. 2
Bethlehem Steel Company 1
Fritz Engineering Laboratory 1
Lehigh University. Department of Civil Engineering 1