Gustav Lindenthal

Gustav Lindenthal ( born May 21, 1850 in Brno, Moravia, † July 31, 1935 in Metuchen, New Jersey ) was a bridge engineer. He built, among others, in 1918, the Hell Gate Bridge in New York, the largest arch bridge in the world. Gustav Lindenthal were awarded three honorary doctorates. An award for civil engineers bridge was named after him.

Life

By 1870, Lindenthal was in Brno, among other apprentice and intern at an engineering factory. The 1870 to 1874 he spent in Vienna, where he worked among other things as an engineer at the Elisabeth -Bahn, then he built in Munich and Switzerland mountain bridges. In 1874, Lindenthal emigrated to the United States.

Between 1874 and 1877 he worked in Philadelphia, at first as a mason and later. Than engineer for the Centenary exposure He subsequently took up 1895 in Pittsburgh to work as a engineer for bridge true. Between 1879 and 1891 built Lindenthal in many states of the USA bridges for Atlantic & Great Western Railroad. He also built in Baltimore, Maryland docks and port facilities. In 1883 he was awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Roland Prize for the design of the Smithfield Street Bridge in Pittsburgh. In the same year he moved to New York City. There he set up his office and worked as an independent bridge construction engineer throughout the United States.

In the years 1902 and 1903 Lindenthal Commissioner of Bridges was in New York. In 1909 he built the Queensboro Bridge in New York. Two years later, he received an honorary doctorate in Dresden. In 1913 he received the Gold Medal for the design of the Hellgate Bridge in Leipzig. Four years later, in 1917, he opened the Sciotoville Bridge in Ohio, one year later, the Hell Gate Bridge in New York. In 1921 he took an honorary doctorate from the Technical University in Brno in the reception. In the years 1925 and 1926 Lindenthal designed three bridges in Portland, Oregon. He received in 1926 an honorary doctorate from the Technical University in Vienna.

Gustav Lindenthal also dealt with reflection on a scientific world currency. In the U.S., he published under his name, in Germany under the name of art " economicus ".

287311
de