John Frank Stevens Civil Engineer

Name: John Frank Stevens Civil Engineer
Price: 5.24 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780253010612

ISBN-10: 0253010616

ISBN-13: 9780253010612

Edition: 2013

Authors: Clifford Foust

List price: $35.00

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $37.88

Marketplace

3 new & used from $5.24

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

John Frank Stevens, one of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years was as a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made in the rugged Selkirks, Rockies, and Cascades on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. As the second chief engineer of the Panama Canal, he laid out the canal as we know it today: a technical achievement far ahead of its time, with multiple high-lock passage and a huge interior lake. Stevens served as head of the Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia, dispatched by President Wilson to aid Russia's new Provisional Government of 1917. As a consultant, he contributed to many engineering feats, including the…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/23/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



A Boy of West Gardiner



Beginnings



The Great Northern



The Panama Canal: In



The Panama Canal: Out



Interlude



Railroading in Russia



The Final Decades


Notes


Bibliography


Index