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Brigadier general; railroad engineer and head of the United States Military Railroad during the American Civil War [5] John Williams Gunnison: 1837 Captain; topographical engineer; supervised one of the Pacific Railroad surveys in 1853; Gunnison, Colorado and Gunnison, Utah are named in his honor [6] [7] Horatio Wright: 1841
Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned [1] American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents. [2]Eads' great Mississippi River Bridge at St. Louis was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior in 1964 and on October 21, 1974 was listed as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American ...
The Chief of Engineers is a principal United States Army staff officer at The Pentagon. The Chief advises the Army on engineering matters, and serves as the Army's topographer and proponent for real estate and other related engineering programs. The Chief of Engineers is the senior service engineer for the Department of Defense, responsible for ...
Asst. Professor of Engineering at the Military Academy. Highest graduating score in USMA history, and famous for graduating one slot ahead of Robert E. Lee, who had the second highest score in USMA history. 1830 Alexander J. Swift Captain served in the Corps of Engineers, died after he became sick during the Siege of Veracruz 1847 1831
Director of the Engineering Research Institute at the University of Michigan: Richard J. Grosh (1971–1976) Dean of the School of Engineering at Purdue University: George M. Low, 1948 (1976–1984) Deputy administrator of NASA: Daniel Berg (1984–1985) (acting) (1985–1987) Vice-President and Provost of RPI Stanley I. Landgraf, 1946 (1988 ...
Military engineer and designer of first elevated suburban passenger railway Tulio Larrínaga: Puerto Rican Resident Commissioner Rashid Latif: Former Pakistani cricket team wicketkeeper and captain J. J. Leeming: British county surveyor and road engineer Robert Legget: Canadian non-fiction writer Thomas Leiper: Designer of a canal and railway ...
The United States Military Academy was founded in 1802, through the Military Peace Establishment Act signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson.The legislation served the dual purpose of maintaining a well-trained standing militia at the ready, and of bringing to fruition Jefferson's vision of a national university. [1]
Raye Montague wrote a computer program that revolutionized US Naval ship design. Montague joined the United States Navy in 1956 in Washington, D.C., as a clerk typist.At work, she sat next to a 1950s UNIVAC I computer, watching the engineers operate it until one day, when all the engineers were sick, she jumped in to run the machine. [4]