German Civil Engineers - Konrad Zuse, Henning Von Berg, Fritz Todt, Albert Fink, Fritz Leonhardt, Hannskarl Bandel, Walter Hohmann (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Konrad Zuse, Henning Von Berg, Fritz Todt, Albert Fink, Fritz Leonhardt, Hannskarl Bandel, Walter Hohmann, Jrg Schlaich, Theodor Becker, Franz Dischinger, Christian Otto Mohr, Johann Georg Specht, Carl Culmann, Carl Friedrich Meerwein, Robert Gerwig, Ernst Dircksen. Excerpt: Albert Fink Albert Fink (October 27, 1827 April 3, 1897) was a German civil engineer. He is best known for his railroad bridge designs, and devising the Fink truss. Born in Lauterbach, Hesse, Germany, he studied architecture and engineering at the Polytechnic school in Darmstadt, and graduated in 1848. In 1849 he emigrated to the United States. He soon found work with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as a draftsman, and became chief office assistant to Benjamin H. Latrobe . In this position he oversaw the design and construction of buildings and bridges. With the construction of the road between Cumberland, Maryland and Wheeling, West Virginia (then in the state of Virginia ). Fink supervised much of the design, and oversaw the building of some of the first iron bridges in the nation, including that over the Monongahela River in Fairmont, West Virginia . It was this bridge that first implemented his design of the Fink truss, and was in fact in its time the longest iron railroad bridge. With the completion of this portion of road, the section between Grafton and Parkersburg, West Virginia was commenced, and many of the bridges and tunnels of this route were also supervised by him. He was also during this time a consulting engineer of the Norfolk and Petersburg railway, which was at the time building the bridge at Norfolk, Virginia . He left the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in 1857 to become the assistant of George McLeod, chief engineer of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad . Under them he built numerous ...