- Michel Virlogeux
Dr. Michel Virlogeux (born 1946, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire) is a French structural engineer and bridge builder. He received the 2003 IABSE Award of Merit in Structural Engineering in recognition of "his major contributions leading to very significant progress in the field of civil engineering, in particular through the development of external prestressing, landmark cable-stayed bridges and composite structures". - Gustav Lindenthal
Gustav Lindenthal (May 21, 1850 - July 31, 1935) was a civil engineer who designed the Hell Gate Bridge among other bridges. Lindenthal's work was greatly affected by his pursuit for perfection and his love of art. His structures not only serve the purpose they were designed for, but are aesthetically pleasing to the public eye. Having received little formal education and no degree in civil engineering, … - John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling was a German-born civil engineer famous for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, in particular, the design of the Brooklyn Bridge. - Gustave Eiffel
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was a French structural engineer and architect and a specialist of metallic structures. He is famous for designing the Eiffel Tower, built 1887-1889 for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France, and the armature for the Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, USA. - Othmar Ammann
Othmar Herman Ammann (March 26 1879 - September 22 1965) was a renowned civil engineer whose designs include: *George Washington Bridge (opened October 24 1931) *Bayonne Bridge (opened November 15 1931) *Triborough Bridge (opened July 11 1936) *Bronx-Whitestone Bridge (opened April 29 1939) *Throg's Neck Bridge (opened January 11 1961) *Verrazano Narrows Bridge (opened November 21 1964) Othmar Ammann was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in 1879. - Washington Roebling
Washington Augustus Roebling (May 26, 1837 - July 21, 1926) was an American civil engineer best known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge, which was initially designed by his father John A. Roebling. The eldest son of John Roebling, Washington was born in the Pittsburgh area town of Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, a town co-founded by his father and his uncle, Karl Roebling. - Conde McCullough
Conde Balcom McCullough (1887-1946) was a U.S. bridge engineer who is primarily known for designing most of Oregon's coastal bridges on U.S. Route 101. McCullough was born in Redfield, South Dakota, and graduated from Iowa State University with a civil engineering degree in 1910. He moved to Oregon in 1916 and became an assistant professor of civil engineering at Oregon Agricultural College. - Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford (August 9, 1757 - September 2, 1834) was born in Westerkirk, Scotland. He was a stonemason, architect and civil engineer and a noted road, bridge and canal builder. - Robert Maillart
Robert Maillart (February 6, 1872 - April 5, 1940) was a Swiss civil engineer who revolutionized reinforced concrete with such designs as the three-hinged arch, the deck-stiffened arch, and the mushroom slab. - Joseph Strauss
Joseph Baermann Strauss (January 9, 1870 - May 16, 1938) was an American structural engineer and designer. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to an artistic family, having a mother who was a pianist and a father who was a writer and painter. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1892, serving as both class poet and president. Upon graduating from the University of Cincinnati, Strauss worked at the Office of Ralph Modjeski, … - Leon Moisseiff
Leon Moisseiff (1872 - 1943) was a leading suspension bridge engineer in the United States of America in the 1920s and 1930s. - Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 - 15 September 1859), was a British engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, and numerous important bridges. Though Brunel's projects were not always successful, they often contained innovative solutions to long-standing engineering problems. - William Arrol
William Arrol (1839 - 1913) was a Scottish civil engineer, bridge builder, and Liberal Party politician. The son of a spinner, he was born in Houston, Renfrewshire, and started work in a cotton mill at only 9 years of age. He started training as a blacksmith by age 13, and went on to learn mechanics and hydraulics at night school. In 1863 he joined a company of bridge manufacturers in Glasgow, but by 1872 had established his own business, the Dalmarnock Iron Works, … - Christian Menn
Christian Menn (born March 3, 1927) is a respected bridge designer from Bern, Switzerland. He owned his own Engineering Company in Chur, Switzerland from 1957-1971. From 1971 until his retirement in 1992 he became a professor of Structural Engineering at ETH Zurich specializing in Bridge design. In his retirement years, he continues to be a consulting engineer in private practice. - Theodore Cooper
Theodore Cooper (1839 - August 24, 1919) was an American Civil engineer. He may be best known as supervising engineer on the Quebec Bridge when it collapsed in 1907. Upon receiving a degree in civil engineering in 1858, Cooper accepted a position as Assistant Engineer on the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac (Massachusetts) Tunnel. - David B. Steinman
David Bernard Steinman (June 11, 1886 - August 21, 1960) was an American engineer. He was the designer of the Mackinac Bridge and many other notable bridges, and a published author. He grew up in New York City's lower Manhattan, and lived with the ambition of making his mark on the Brooklyn Bridge that he lived under. In 1909 he received a Master of Arts from Columbia University and a Doctorate in 1911. - Guillaume Henri Dufour
Guillaume-Henri Dufour (15 September 1787, Konstanz - 14 July 1875, Geneva) was a Swiss general and topographer. He served under Napoleon I and led the Swiss forces to victory against the Sonderbund. He presided over the first Geneva convention which established the International Red Cross. He was the most famous president of the Swiss Federal Office of Topography from 1838 to 1865. The Dufourspitze (the highest mountain in Switzerland) of Monte Rosa massif is named for him. - Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava is one of my favourite contemporary architects. It is not because he is Spanish, it is just because he is special. He is an architect and an engineer, what indeed influences his way of designing bridges, public spaces, and buildings. I got trapped into Calatrava's work after seeing a documentary in Spanish TV station "La2" many many years ago (I was a kid and he was beginning to be popular). - Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson FRS (16 October 1803 - 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer; many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of father and son. - Tung-Yen Lin
Tung-Yen Lin (November 14, 1912 – November 15, 2003) was a world-renowned structural engineer best known as the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete. Born in Fuzhou, China as the fourth of eleven children, he was raised in Beijing where his father was a justice of the ROC's Supreme Court. He did not begin formal schooling until age 11, and only so because his parents forged his birth year to be 1911 so that he would qualify. - John Rennie
John Rennie (7 June 1761 at "Phantassie", near East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland - 4 October 1821), a farmer's younger son, was a Scottish civil engineer who designed many bridges, canals, and docks. A tinkerer and model builder even as a child, he first worked as a millwright with noted mechanical engineer Andrew Meikle (inventor of the threshing machine). Rennie then attended the University of Edinburgh (1780-1783) and began work as an engineer, … - Benjamin Baker
Sir Benjamin Baker (March 31, 1840 - May 19, 1907), English engineer, was born near Bath in 1840, and, after receiving his early training in a South Wales ironworks, became associated with Sir John Fowler in London. He took part in the construction of the Metropolitan railway (London), and in designing the cylindrical vessel in which Cleopatra's Needle, now standing on the Thames Embankment, London, was brought over from Egypt to England in 1877-1878. - Leffert L. Buck
Leffert L. Buck (1837 in Canton, New York - July 17, 1909) was an American civil engineer and a pioneer in the use of steel arch bridge structures. Leffert graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY in 1868. His projects include: *the Verrugas Viaduct on the Oroya Railroad in Peru (in the early 1870s) *the steel suspension bridge over the Niagara Gorge *one of New York City's most notable landmarks: the Williamsburg Bridge (with Henry Hornbostel). - Squire Whipple
Squire Whipple C.E. (September 16, 1804-March 15, 1888) was a civil engineer born in Hardwick, Massachusetts. His family moved to New York when he was thirteen. He studied at Fairfield Academy. He graduated from Union College after only one year. He has become known as the father of iron bridge building in America. He died March 15, 1888 in Albany, New York and was buried in Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, New York. - Fritz Leonhardt
Fritz Leonhardt (12 July 1909 - 30 December 1999) was a German engineer who made major contributions to 20th century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges. His book "Bridges: Aesthetics and Design" is well known throughout the bridge engineering community. - James Buchanan Eads
James Buchanan Eads (23 May, 1820-8 March, 1887) was an American structural engineer and inventor. Eads was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and named for his Mother's cousin, then Congressman and subsequent President of the United States James Buchanan. His early life was spent growing up in St. Louis, Missouri. - Charles Ellet Jr.
Charles Ellet, Jr. was a civil engineer and a colonel during the American Civil War, mortally wounded at the Battle of Memphis. Ellet was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, brother of Alfred W. Ellet, also a civil engineer and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the war. Charles studied civil engineering at École Polytechnique in Paris, France, and in 1832 submitted proposals for a suspension bridge across the Potomac River.. In 1842, … - John Alexander Low Waddell
John Alexander Low Waddell (1854-1938, often shortened to J.A.L. Waddell and sometimes known as John Alexander Waddell) was an American civil engineer and prolific bridge designer, with more than a thousand structures to his credit in the U.S., Canada, and other countries around the world. In 1893, his patented design was used for the first steam-powered high-lift bridge in the United States, … - Albert Fink
Albert Fink was a German civil engineer. He is best known for his railroad bridge designs, and devising the Fink truss. - John Smeaton
John Smeaton, <small>FRS</small>, (June 8, 1724 - October 28, 1792) was a civil engineer - often regarded as the "father of civil engineering" - responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a more than capable mechanical engineer and an eminent physicist. He was associated with the Lunar Society. He was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer. - Marc Seguin
Marc Seguin was a French engineer, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge and the tubular steam-engine boiler. Born Annonay near Lyon, France to Marc François Seguin, founder of Seguin & Co. and Thérèse-Augustine de Montgolfier niece of Joseph Montgolfier, he was an inventor and entrepreneur. He developed the first suspension bridge in continental Europe, building and administering toll-bridges for a total of 186 bridges throughout France. - John Fowler
Sir John Fowler KCMG Bt (15 July 1817 - 10 November 1898) was a railway engineer in Victorian Britain. He helped build the first underground railway in London, the Metropolitan line in the 1860s, a shallow line built by the "cut-and-cover" method. - John Bradfield
John Job Crew Bradfield (December 26, 1867 - September 23, 1943) was an engineer who designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge and had a grand vision for Sydney's railway system that has only been partly fulfilled. Other accomplishments include the design of the Story Bridge, Brisbane. He also designed the Cataract and Burrinjuck Dams. Bradfield was born in Sandgate, Queensland, the youngest son of John Edward Bradfield (1823/4 - 1902) and Maria Crew (1828 - 1917). - Al Zampa
Alfred Zampa (born March 12, 1905 in Selby, California; died April 23, 2000) was an American bridge construction worker who played an integral role in the construction of numerous San Francisco Bay Area bridges during the early twentieth century. He is most notable for being one of the first people to survive falling off the Golden Gate Bridge, … - Jean M. Muller
Jean Muller was a French bridge engineer who focussed on design and construction of concrete bridges. - William Brown
William Brown (September 16, 1928 - March 16, 2005) was an engineer and bridge designer who specialised in suspension bridges. He is credited with the idea of designing bridge decks with an aerofoil-shaped cross section (in effect an upside-down wing) for stability in a wide variety of wind conditions. - James Finley
James Finley (1756 - 1828), also known as Judge James Finley, is widely recognised as the the first designer and builder of the modern suspension bridge. His Jacob's Creek Bridge, built in 1801 and demolished in 1833, was an early example of a suspension bridge using wrought iron chains. It connected Uniontown to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA, spanning 21 metres (70 feet). Other bridges by Finley or to his patent include: * Potomac River, 1807, … - Sir Ralph Freeman
Sir Ralph Freeman (27 November 1880 - 11 March 1950) was an English civil engineer, responsible for the design of several of the world's most impressive bridges. Born in London, England, he studied at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and the City and Guilds of London Institute, and in 1901 joined Douglas Fox & Partners, a firm of consulting engineers specialising in the design of steel bridges. - John Waddell
John Waddell (1828 - 1888) was a Scottish-born railway contractor based in Edinburgh. He ran the enterprising and respected firm John Waddell & Sons and went on to complete many routes during the rise of the railways across England during the late 19th century, especially for the NER. Notable examples of his work include the rebuilding of Putney Bridge in London (1882), the Scarborough & Whitby Railway, … - Sir Ralph Freeman
Sir Ralph Freeman (3 February 1911 - 24 August 1998) was an English civil engineer, responsible for the design of the Humber Suspension Bridge - the longest in the world until 1998. He was the son of Sir Ralph Freeman, designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He was educated at Uppingham School, Leicestershire and Worcester College, Oxford. Sir Ralph worked on bridges in South Africa and Rhodesia, where he met his wife Joan Rose, …
|
| |