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Builders of the Hoosac Tunnel

Builders of the Hoosac Tunnel

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Paperback
9781942155072
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10/06/2015
Peter E. Randall | C.J. Schexnayder
REGIONS: United States
7.2 X 10.2 in
668 pg
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Description
The Smithsonian Institution's Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology is located in the bowels of the National Museum of American History. Cliff was one of the fortunate who, having received a Dibner Library Resident Scholar award, spent many an hour on the other side of those secreted doors. It was an experience rather like that of C. S. Lewis's Lucy, who climbed into the wardrobe and discovered a magical land. He met no White Witch, but the experience produced this book--the result of a wonderful adventurous journey.

Builders of the Hoosac Tunnel traces the interactions between those who worked to bore the five-mile Hoosac railroad tunnel and those who hindered its construction. From the railroad stockholders, to the Canadian brothers who achieved daylight through the mountain, the story follows the evolution of American Civil Engineering.

Cliff Schexnayder
Author Bio

Cliff Schexnayder is the author of Construction Planning, Equipment & Methods, McGraw-Hill higher education, in print since 1995 and an Arizona State University Eminent Scholar, Emeritus. He was awarded a fellowship from the Smithsonian Institute Libraries to research this book. He holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University, and B.S.C.E./M.S.C.E. degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology. Cliff was awarded the American Association of Engineering Societies, Norm Augustine Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Communications in 2011 and the American Society of Civil Engineers OPAL (Outstanding Projects and Leaders) Award—Education in 2012. He was also awarded the Tasher H. Bliss Award of The Society of American Military Engineers, for outstanding contributions to military engineering education, 2001. He worked as an engineering consultant supporting the National Museum of the American Indian’s landmark exhibition, The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire. Cliff is a member of the National Academy of Construction, the Academia Panamericana de Ingeniería, and a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Additionally he is a Profesores Honorarios de Facultad de Ingeniería (Honorary Professor Faculty of Engineering), at the Universidad de Piura, Piura, Peru and a Honorary Professor, Ricardo Palma Universidad, Lima, Peru. He lives in Branford, CT.