Format:
1 Online-Ressource (360 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0253010616
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0253010691
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9780253010612
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9780253010698
Series Statement:
Railroads Past and Present
Content:
One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, creating a technical achievement far ahead of its time. Stevens also served for more than five years as the head of the US Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and as a consultant who contributed to many engineering feats, including the contro
Content:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A Boy of West Gardiner; 2 Beginnings; 3 The Great Northern; 4 The Panama Canal: In; 5 The Panama Canal: Out; 6 Interlude; 7 Railroading in Russia; 8 The Final Decades; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253010612
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Foust, Clifford John Frank Stevens : Civil Engineer Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2013 ISBN 9780253010612
Language:
English
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