Gustav Lindenthal was a civil engineer who designed the Hell Gate Bridge among other bridges. Lindenthal's work was greatly affected by his pursuit for perfection and his love of art. His structures not only serve the purpose they were designed for, but are aesthetically pleasing to the public eye. Having received little formal education and no degree in civil engineering, Lindenthal based his work on his prior experience and techniques used by other engineers of the time.
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- Gustav Lindenthal was a civil engineer who designed the Hell Gate Bridge among other bridges. Lindenthal's work was greatly affected by his pursuit for perfection and his love of art. His structures not only serve the purpose they were designed for, but are aesthetically pleasing to the public eye. Having received little formal education and no degree in civil engineering, Lindenthal based his work on his prior experience and techniques used by other engineers of the time. Lindenthal was born in Brno, now Czech Republic in 1850. Lindenthal began to receive practical training in 1866 when he was employed as a mason and carpenter (Petroski 1995). At the age of 18, Lindenthal left his family to set out to make a life of his own in Vienna, Austria. When he arrived in Vienna he became an assistant in the engineering department for the Empress Elisabeth Railway of Austria. Two years later he joined the Union Construction Company, where he gained experience in building incline planes and railroads. Then a year later he decided to join the Swiss National Railroad, where he was hired on as a division engineer in charge of location and construction. While living in Vienna, he attended some public engineering lectures at a local university. However, he never did actually attend the university or receive a degree. Lindenthal in fact taught himself mathematics, engineering theory, metallurgy, hydraulics, estimating, management, and everything else that a successful bridge engineer needed to know (Petroski 1995). Nevertheless, the lack of his formal education hindered him from further advancement in Europe, so he decided to immigrate to the United States in 1874. When he first arrived in the United States he was employed as a journeyman stone-mason for the memorial granite building of the Centennial International Exhibition in Philadelphia (Janberg 2006). After completion of this project, Lindenthal went and worked for the Keystone Bridge Company on numerous projects. While working for this company, he gained valuable experience which propelled him to the status of bridge engineer. At the age of eighty-five, Lindenthal succumbed to a long illness and died shortly after. Up until that point, he remained active as president and chief engineer of the North River Bridge Company in New York. Throughout his engineering career, Lindenthal reached new heights in bridge design and construction by revolutionizing the scale and purposes of his structures. He will be remembered as a master visionary of civil engineering.
- Gustav Lindenthal war ein bedeutender Brückenbauingenieur. Er baute u.a. im Jahre 1918 die Hellgate-Brücke in New York, die größte Bogenbrücke der Welt. Gustav Lindenthal wurden drei Ehrendoktorwürden verliehen. Ein Auszeichnung für Brückenbauingenieure wurde nach ihm benannt.
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- Gustav Lindenthal was a civil engineer who designed the Hell Gate Bridge among other bridges. Lindenthal's work was greatly affected by his pursuit for perfection and his love of art. His structures not only serve the purpose they were designed for, but are aesthetically pleasing to the public eye. Having received little formal education and no degree in civil engineering, Lindenthal based his work on his prior experience and techniques used by other engineers of the time.
- Gustav Lindenthal war ein bedeutender Brückenbauingenieur. Er baute u.a. im Jahre 1918 die Hellgate-Brücke in New York, die größte Bogenbrücke der Welt. Gustav Lindenthal wurden drei Ehrendoktorwürden verliehen. Ein Auszeichnung für Brückenbauingenieure wurde nach ihm benannt.
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