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| ISBN: | 9780253010698
0253010691
9780253010612
0253010616
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Foust, Clifford. John Frank Stevens : Civil Engineer. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2013 9780253010612
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