All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

ABC066 Frederick Graff, Rudolph Hering, John C. Trautwine, Lewis Haupt, Charles Day, Emory R. Johnson: Pushing Water, Part 1

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All Bones Considered #066: Pushing Water

  • Frederick Graff took over from Benjamin Latrobe to develop the Philadelphia Water Works
  • Rudolph Hering was summoned to Chicago to help them with their drinking water problem and helped them reverse the flow of the Chicago River
  • John C. Trautwine is remembered for his book, called "The Engineer's Bible," and for predicting a canal could never be built across Panama
  • Lewis Haupt was another doubter, although he served on the Panama Committee
  • Charles Day Philadelphia company of Day & Zimmerman laid the first concrete at the famed Culebra Locks
  • Emory Richard Johnson was the only man in the world with the training to figure out an appropriate fee schedule for the Canal; his formulas were used for more than half a century
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