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The International Concrete Abstracts Portal is an ACI led collaboration with leading technical organizations from within the international concrete industry and offers the most comprehensive collection of published concrete abstracts.
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Document:
SP52-02
Date:
January 1, 1976
Author(s):
Howard Newlon, Jr.
Publication:
Symposium Papers
Volume:
52
Abstract:
Just as the roots of the United States political system and its people extend back in time and across the Atlantic Ocean, so do the beginnings of the United States contributions to the history of cement, concrete, and reinforced concrete.
DOI:
10.14359/17621
SP52-03
Editor: Howard Newlon, Jr.
A biography of Thaddeus Hyatt. Thaddeus Hyatt was born in New Jersey in 1816. The son of a schoolmaster, he was educated as a lawyer but did not practice, spending most of his life in New York City and London. Early in his career (about 1840-50) he invented and manufactured what he called an "illuminated sidewalk grating" made of iron, concrete, and glass. . .
10.14359/17622
SP52-04
Thaddeus Hyatt
The experiments made by the writer and which will be explained in the following pages, had for their object a possible means of obtaining cheaper and more reliable fireproof constructions than those in common use.
10.14359/17623
SP52-05
A biography of William Evans Ward. William Evans Ward was born in Indiana in 1821, but moved east with his family at an early age. In 1845 he went to Port Chester, N.Y., and started a business, devoting his attention first to the manufacture of wood screws and afterwards establishing a bolt and nut manufacturing plant, which continued in operation until the operation was transferred to Colorado in 1794. He was a pioneer in business and held many mechanical patents. By training and experience a mechanical engineer, Ward was a charter member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
10.14359/17624
SP52-13
C.A.P. Turner
In taking up the various systems of concrete steel construction the name Francois Monier, a French gardener, stands pre-eminent as the pioneer in this field, while to Hennibique in France and Ransome in the United States due credit should be given as leaders among the early pioneers in this line of work. To Armand Considere belongs the credit of the invention of the safest and most conservative type of column design, that is the hooped and vertically reinforced column.
10.14359/17632
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