Cooper Bridge Plan collection, 1887-1889 (bulk).

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Cooper Bridge Plan collection, 1887-1889 (bulk).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63934951

Consists mainly of letters (194 items) and drawings (ca. 150) sent to Theodore Cooper, giving him information for the important paper on American railroad bridges which he published in Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1889. Also contains notes, sketches, and a few photographs. Drawings are mainly prints and blueprints of railroad bridges, including ones designed by Theodore Burr, Timothy Palmer, Lewis Wernwag, and Albert H. Fink. Correspondents include the American Society of Civil Engineers; D.M. Stauffer, editor of Engineering News magazine; H. Bissell, chief engineer, Boston and Maine Rail Road; A.J. Swift, chief engineer, Delaware & Hudson Canal Company; Palmer C. Ricketts, director of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and T.R. Lawson, his assistant; Henry McCormick Jr., president of Harrisburg Bridge Company; and the Lehigh Valley Rail Road Company. The collection includes several items about the work of Theodore Burr and Timothy Palmer, earlier civil engineers who had each designed a number of railroad bridges.

.9 cubic ft. plus 278 items.

Cornell University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7904989

Cornell University Library

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Burr, Theodore B., 1899-1985

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Architect and builder of covered bridges in Pennsylvania. Born 1771; died 1822. From the description of Biographical sketch of Theodore Burr, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452378 ...

Fink, Albert, 1827-1897

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Railway construction engineer, railroad executive, and architect. From the description of Albert Fink papers, 1850-1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82785985 ...

Palmer, Timothy B.

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Cooper, Theodore, 1839-1919

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American civil engineer (1839-1919). Author of the first authoritative specifications on bridge construction, published in 1884. From the description of Cooper Bridge Plan collection, 1887-1889 (bulk). (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63934951 ...

Wernwag, Lewis, 1769-1843

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Stauffer, D. M.

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McCormick, Henry, Jr.

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Boston Society of Civil Engineers

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Swift, A. J.

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Ricketts, Palmer Chamberlaine, -1860

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Bissell, Harold W.

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Lehigh Valley Railroad Company

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The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company was incorporated in Pennsylvania as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company on April 21, 1846, the name being changed on Jan. 7, 1853. It was one of the major anthracite railroads and formed a secondary trunk line between Jersey City, N.J., and Buffalo, N.Y. The railroad's original function was to serve as an outlet from the Lehigh Anthracite Region to tidewater by building along the Lehigh River from Mauch Chu...

Lawson, T. R.

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