Supplement of Additions and Changes APRIL 5, 1941
FIRST FLOOR Removed: 21 Add d: i ID. juap or uie Panamranaraa oanai ^une. - ^om In 117, Bartlett Dam near Phoenix, Arizona. The highest multiple-arch dam in the world, 270 feet high. 148. View of Bartlett Dam. _ , «rtT1ffni 154. Buchanan Dam in Texas. Multiple arch dam for power and flood coniroi purposes. SECOND FLOOR Removed: 42, 43. To third floor: 64. To fourth floor: 56, 57, 58, 59. Added: 124 from fourth floor. 138. Relief Map of the United States. 139. View of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. 140. View of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. m 141. San Gabriel Dam under construction near Los Angeles, California. Highest earth and rock dam in the world, 375 feet high. # 142. Pardee Dam for the Oakland-Metropolitan water district. 358 feet high. Contains 222,000 acre feet of storage. 143. View of construction on 79th Street Filtration Plant, Chicago, Illinois. 145. Exchequer Dam. Power and irrigation dam in the central valley of Cal ifornia. 226 feet high. Reservoir of 289,000 acre feet of water. 150. View of docks and piers in New York Harbor. 151. View of Docks in New York Harbor. 152. Two-hinged rib arch highway bridge. Vermont. 153. View of the trans-Atlantic ship Queen Mary entering New York harbor. THIRD FLOOR Removed: 75, 77, 86, 94. Added: 64 from second floor. 131. San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge from San Francisco. 132. False, corbel arch used by early Mexican civilization. 133. The Diablo development on the Skagit River in Washington. 134. George Westinghouse Bridge near Pittsburgh, Penna. The largest rein U View of Boulder Dam million world 136. Upper Mississippi river and St. Paul and Minneapolis bridges. 137. Old Print of the first High Bridge over the Harlem river. Built about 1840 as an aqueduct. 149. Hammerhead cranes and outlet pipes used in the construction of Grand Coulee Dam FOURTH FLOOR Removed: 109, 113, 116. 124 to second floor. Added: 56, 57, 58, 59 from second floor. 125. View of the construction of Grand Coulee Dam. 126. Point Bridge in Pittsburgh, Penna. at junction of Monongahela and All gheny rivers. Hammerhead cranes used in construction of Grand Coulee Dam 12 Monongahela and AUegh i rs. 129. Th» highest suspension bridge in the world across the Royal Gorge in rad< I >2 fee) al >ve the water. TT Boro gh and Hell Gate Bridges in New York ( ty as seen fi Q nm Citaloguc of Photographs in Engineering Hill University of Illinois
First Floor 1. Sh< hone ( im n Dam, Wyoming. Shoshone Lake, i rmed by the Dam, i tl background. The highway on the edge of the lake app ir in phot* raph number 2. 2, Hi hway on the edge of Shoshone Lake, Wyoming. 3, Highway in the Shoshone Canyon, Wyoming. 4. Cloverleaf highway intersection. Built in 1929 by the New Jersey Highway De partment at the intersection of State Routes 4 and 25. Thru traffic pro tected by grade separation. Right turns use outer "Y" curves. Left turns pass through the grade separation and then turn right around the inner looj of the cloverleaf. 5. The Eads Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri. Hingeless .irch bridge with clear spans of 520 feet in the center and 502 feet on each side. One of the most remarkable structures of all time. Its construction in 1867-1874 marked the beginning of the use of steel for bridges in the United States and the first important application of pneumatic caissons for deep foundations. Capt. James B. Eads was the designer and superintendent of construction. The bridge is remarkable for its use of alloy steel for the main ribs. 6. Municipal Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis. Double deck railway and highway bridge. Three spans of 668 feet each over the river channel. Boiler, Hodge and Baird, Consulting Engineers. Note the Cahokia Power Plant in the background. This bridge has extremely elaborate and compli cated railway and highway approaches. It was started about 1912 and has not yet been fully completed. 7. Szechenjo Chain Bridge over the Danube River at Budapest. Sometimes referred to as the world's most beautiful bridge. Tiernay Clarke was the engineer. Note the ornamental towers and entrance, characteristic of European struc tures. This is an I-bar chain cable suspension bridge. Span 685 feet. 8. Proposed skyscraper 1000 feet high to have been built of cast iron and gla from the Crystal Palace, England, 1851. 9. View of the Chrysler Building, New York. Height, 66 stories, 1044 feci. 10. View of the Empire State Building, New York. Height, 85 stories, 1250 it t. 11. View of the Woolworth Building, New York City. Old Tost Ofiic in the fore ground. Note the Hudson River piers in the background. Height. 5; t< 792 feet. 12. Lehigh and Hudson Canal near Easton, Pennsylvania. Enlai ement made h m phot graph taken by Professor J. S. Crandell. 13. 1 rvoir dam for the City of Baltimore water supply. 14. Aerial view < lake formed by Boulder Dam. The Dam appears in the tr right and is apparently about one-half inch in len ih. 15. Aerial view of Michigan Avenue Bridge over Chicago Riv< , Chw llli View taken during parade. 1 1 rial view t th Sky Ride and Fair undi Chi< i V rid 1 • I 1 Michigan i\ nue in the background. I -man Aquedu< it 5 ia, Spaii r \ \\( •rial Bridg( r th Potoi 1 d. ( I ni i th< ; un<
[ 3 | i D ;A«* Pittshureh Pennsylvania. R d the Phoebe 19 * S d X'awarll ^aSctural m'erit. Two-rib, open-spandrel. . Suspension bridge over Delawan Rivei beiw I Philadelphia and \m<\<- Built by th( Stales of I nnsylvania and Xew Jei y and th cities of Phila reuforced ncr, . bighw ' bnd| delphia and imden. Ralph Modi ki, I insulting E dneer. Not' the Phil 20 'atayraBri r the Delaware River. Fwo-hanged bed arch „th delphia Municipal Piers in the >und. Main span 1750 t\ .ntinuous tru ipproach spans. 39. Deck raili id bridge over the Potomac River, Norfolk and \\ Ki<- * ..... , • v,...- rersev. four-track, railway bndg< ,,•,- tr; Shepherdstown, W. Virginia. Typical example of modern ri d tru 2i.^ •'•;,« ; ;" :;;;';„ ,':>«..u^H«*«! lift.,™., „1K1 construction. ,!ter span * This bridge has g plat, rder J 40. Combined highway and railway bridge over Kennel Ri\ near LJath, Mail proach on n pile pi< Highway traffic carried on upp< ck; railway traffic on lower deck. Waddell 22. WaLh Vvenue Brid, hi, River. Chicago. Illinois. Open and cl, ,, lift span over channel. Waddell and Hardesty, Consulting El neers. Vic v^ , i ,!,. ,.,.,, -tnn-tion of San Francisi <)-Oakland B.o, Bridtt 23. Night.view taken dunn ^e the lights on tb ops of the* derrick Second Floor ! ""?, wYrn a oplanes. Ox all length ol structui mile 41. Filtei building, Cit\ of Detroit wah supply, Springwell Station. Note par ticularly the reinforced concrete roof construction. 14 Lake Champlain Brid I .ntinuous truss spans on very deep foundations. Fay. 42. Largi ne sewer, Kansas City, Missouri. Note the sanitary sewer supj rted on Sp, ord and Thorn.!.! 3 Engineers. the >id< the storm sewer. This is a construction view and the sewer will 25 \r(hm ketch ..i the Washington Brid rcr the Hudson R.v« at later be covered over with earth. New Vurl wir-cable. sus] tsion brid As shown m thi view there i 4 Construction \ of large storm sewer, Kansas City, Missouri. Note the re- no stiffening tru When a new d - added below the pre nt highway inforcin steel in placi in the foreground, concrete being placed in the middle- deck stiffening trusse will IK- U I. Note the open steel braced towers. Th< i mud and a completed section in the background. original intention \ to encase th( tow 3 in stone m mry. Mam span 44. Aerial view of sewerage treatment works at Elyria, Ohio. 3500 feel 45. North Side Sewage Treatment Plant of the Chicago Sanitary District. World's 26 Quebec Bridg( the St. Lawrenj River near Queb Canada the longest largest activated sludge plant. Iltll, brid in the world, i Qter span oi 1MJ0 tee! Lhis bridge dlus- ,,-,,, , -K" bracing, originally developed tor this structure. 46 Vctivated sludge plant at Elyria, Ohio, marked by its attractive landscape approach tnc and the gn thouses for the drying of sludge. 27 \ f the Empire State Building aken during construction. \ is taken w 0 w 47. Sewage Treatment plant at Geneva, Illinois, on the banks of the Fox River. It looking north toward Grand Central Station. Height, 85 storn . 1250 feel i another activated sludge plant with greenhouses for drying sludge. Its out ("1, sler Building in the right background. standing characteristics are the landscaping. Located in a high-class valuable 28. Map Mew York Harbor. property neighborhood. 29. Acnal view i ower Manhattan Island, Empire State Building and Central 48. Architect's sketch of proposed 2000 ft. Observation Tower on the lake front, Park in the background. Note the East River Bridge. Reading from th< in Chicago. Frank Randall, Engineer. bottom toward th top on the right hand side may be seen the Brooklyn 40. Britannia Tubular Plate Girder Bridge. Double-track, through, plate-girder Brid Manhattan Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, Blackwells Esland Bridg< bridge in which the metal roof and metal floor participate in carrying the and the Hell Gate Arch. This view was taken before the construction of the load. The piers were originally built for a proposed suspension bridge and new Triborough Bridge which has now been constructed on the near sid< md later adapted to the tubular plate girder which is still in use. Span 460 feet. parallel to Hell Gat< \rch. Note the George Washington Bridge in the left 50. Firth O'Forth Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland. For many years the largest bridge background. in the world. Main span 1710 feet. The main members are tubular, in sec 30 I view of the Lake i ml in Chicago. In the foreground may be seen the tions built up by riveting the plates together in the field. Outer Drive. 51. The famous Brooklyn Bridge, designed and built by John Roebling and Sons. 31. Metropolitan Life Insurance Building in Xew York. One of the early tall build Earliest long span bridge built in the United States. The bridge crosses the ing in New York City. Now completely overshadowed by much taller East River in New York and carries highway and elevated railway traffic structures. between Manhattan and Long Island. Note particularly the stone towers. 32. Los Angeles County Hospital, Los Angeles, California. Very beautiful example Span 1596 feet. of modern reinforced concrete building construction. 52. Reinforced concrete highway bridge on the Pacific Coast Highway. Two-rib. 33. West Chester Bark Bridge, Woodlawn Place, New York. Four-rib, reinforced- open-spandrel, reinforced-concrete, highway arch. concrete, highway arch. 53. High dam and reinforced concrete highway bridge in the French Alps. 34. Highway grade separation near Chicago. Primarily for the separation of grade 54. High-level, reinforced-concrete, arch, highway bridge near Akron. Ohio. N e of two trunk highways. A small amount of transfer traffic is accommodated particularly the high slender piers. by the two "Y" curves. 55. Remains of a cathedral. 35. Self-anchoring, suspension bridge over the Allegheny River, Pittsburgh Pennsyl 56. Cappelin Memorial Bridge over the Mississippi River at Minneapolis Two-rib. vania Vote the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge in the left background. Main reinforced-concrete, highway arch. This view was taken before the span 430 icet. the old bridge had been removed. 36. Connecticut Avenue Bridge, Washington, D. C. Open-spandrel barrel-ribbed, 57. French King Bridge. Cantilever highway bridge. rem forced-concrete, highway, arch bridge. 58. Coolidge Dam, downstream face. 249 feet high. Note spillway at r 37. St. Johns Suspension Bridge, Portland, Oregon. 1207 feet suspended span. of the dam. Power house under construction below the dam. i owers 350 feet high. 59. Coolidge Dam, upstream face. 249 feet high. This is of the multiph type. (4 1 [ 5 1 60. F 1IS Dai 11 Snake River Idaho n eensborough Brid t Ri r in York. lh!5£ltI e,?ts on ,l ' ' - Concrete gravity spillway with masonry Gustave Lindenthal v\ th< D nil Engin Lind< thai oA "t ! , ^e right and earth filled abutments on the left. This dam is w8w0 -vwteeti mghighu andu -+yu4900u teefeefeett lonelongr. the most famed brid: ineers in the world Thil a double k 1 and elevated railway brid Originally built about 1909 and ii J6 th BlaCLCan^ni ,Divers;on Dam on the Boise River in Idaho. Concrete gravity plate floor w repla< by a modern lightweight 1 \ 62. uam uith 14 teet by 64 teet drum gates to control the spillway crest. "'"'"' span 1182 feet. 'Is]r Dn' California 142 feet high and 868 feet long. Hollow dam of me Maoai and buttress (Ambursen) type. Tunahannock Viaduct. Double-track, railway, reinforced-concrete, arch sp; 63. Built by the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad. Lincoln Bush, a?w5cddS °Ver Susquehanna River- Double track railway girder bridge on Chief Engineer. 64. Reinforced concret arch in Switzerland, reproduced from pho' ^raph furnish- UmS?r ae ofVOre^!ngeTn ^^ F B , M^ullough, Bridge Engineer for the ^ratt e ot Oregon. luo-rib, rein forced-concrete, highway arch. by Adolpli Buhler, bridge Engineer for the Swiss National Rail ay. 65. ra, Va bridge re rodu d Reynolds Highway Bridge over Naugatauch River, Connecticut. Two-rib, three- i^Sd^A^lnh^ p -, "? ' P <* from photograph span, highway arch. Note struts between the ribs. 66. umi.nea b Vdolph Buhler, Bridge Engineer for the Swiss National Railway ^l23^ 1'hUadelph.a. Open-spandrel, two- Carquincz Straits Bridge near San Francisco, California. Cantilever bridge on 67. steel towers. Suspended spans erected by hoisting from barges. D. B. Stein- u
• 4'SlVSKl, ,;,"^, °r ' - " ~»«* d„, „„„, h idge Crossing. Main river span, cantilever with simple tru ^». 0. Lm In Memorial at Washington, D. C. Plate girder approaches on each side. Built by the I rt < w York Au I. tn n vie* Aowing the anchorage of the Golden C*t» p -A thority. Waddell and Hardesty, Consulting Engineers fcngineering Corporation, Designers Note th* rit ii Brid*e- Strauss site picture of high buildings and the Eiffel Tower drav cable inning. Alain pan 4200 feet Catwa,ks erected ready for "from Popular Science. T- mmerhead Crane, Puget Sound Navy Yard. 1 d in i of warships. [6] [ 7 1 / ntr/li /'!< »l , 1 iii» PM i» Railroad Brid& . Modei n mtili h
ticularly noteworthy because oJ the rocker beann foi thi tow. po 100 I woramic vie* oi wage disposal plant, Bloomington, lllm 107 View of the Great Northern Railroad Glacier Station. 10i-' Grand Canyon Bridge over Colorado River, north oi Pi zona. Span of ou\ eir 50JU0U feeiv.v.1t . VieT *^ w>• -—••show-s closur- e at center. Notice toggli , lor adjustnn t during erection on the right-hand end. 109 Suspension bridge over Delaware River, between Philadelphia and Camd Built by the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and the citi i of Phila delphia and Camden. Ralph Modjeski, Consulting Engin< r. Note the Phila delphia Municipal Piers in the foreground. Main span 1750 feet. 110. Outerbridge Crossing over Arthur Kill. Main river span is cantilever. The top chord members of the approach spans which seem to connect to the cantilei r span are idle members. Note the separate shafts for the piers. These shaft are of reinforced concrete. 111. Southern Pacific Railway Bridge, Suison Bay, California. Double-track, railroad bridge. Note Waddell Note jacking girders at ends of deck truss span. One of the few I-bar bridges built in recent years. 112. Series of construction views of Kansas City Auditorium. 113. Michigan Central Arch over the Niagara River. Double track ballast deck rail road arch. Two-hinged spandrel braced. In the background, combined high way and railway arch owned by Grand Trunk R.R. On the near side of the arch, note the old piers for the Niagara Gorge Cantilever Bridge which was replaced by the arch in the view. The Niagara Gorge Cantilever Bridge replaced the old suspension bridge built by Roebling. 114. View of the completed Goodyear Zeppelin Hangar at Akron. Note particularly the orange peel doors and their framing. 115. View showing erection of roof arches for the Goodyear Zeppelin Hangar at Akron, Ohio. 116. Monongahela River Bridge, Buckhannon and Northern Railroad, Catawba West Virginia. Center span about 300 feet. ' 117. Bridge oyer the Ohio River, at Sciotoville, Ohio. Chesapeake and Ohio Railwav Double-track, continuous-truss span designed for Cooper's E-60 A modern continuous truss of the highest type. The late Gustave Lindenthai, Consulting Engineer. Spans 775 feet. * 118. Horton Sphere. Spherical gasoline tank developed by Chicago Bridge and Ir« . Company. ws in the J World's Fz Taken for display at the Chicago 120. Miscellaneous views of structural steel fabricated by the Kiter-Conle\ Worb subsidiary of McClintic-Marshall (now Bethlehem Steel Fabricating Co.). Note the high construction on the buildings in the central picture and the framing over the storage yards at the left hand and right hand ends. 121. Grain elevator, Vancouver, B. C. Notice the combined highway and railway bridge in the background with a Strauss Bascule movable span. Reinforced concrete, grain elevator with a timber conveyor trestles. 122. Construction views of the Palmolive Building in Chicago. II labird .md R< Architects. Note particularly wind bracing hown in the upper views. 123. Elizabeth Bridge over the Danube River at Budapest. Main i m ! 1 fc 124. Four views of blasting on the Santa 1 Railroad near Kin man, An na.
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