Stevens Pass
Stevens Pass

Author: JoAnn Roe

Publisher: Caxton Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780870044281

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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press The history of the opening of Stevens Pass through the northern Cascades into the Seattle region is a saga of nearly superhuman feats by railroad construction crews, ghastly design mistakes, natural catastrophes, and the determination of railroad owners to connect isolated communities.

John Frank Stevens
John Frank Stevens

Author: Clifford Foust

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0253010691

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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 control of the Mississippi River after the disastrous floods of 1927 and construction of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam. Drawing on Stevens's surviving personal papers and materials from projects with which he was associated, Clifford Foust offers an illuminating look into the life of an accomplished civil engineer.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 2006

ISBN-13:

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Includes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)