Download PDF by Willi H. Hager: Hydraulicians in the USA 1800-2000: A biographical

This publication offers 1-page brief biographies of scientists and engineers having worked in the components of hydraulic engineering and fluid dynamics within the united states. On each one web page, a extraordinary person is highlighted by means of: (1) particular dates and destinations of delivery and loss of life; (2) academic info, together with additionally awards got; (3) purposes for inclusion within the booklet through highlighting key guides; (4) brief bibliography together with either individual’s personal, and resource literature equivalent to Who’s Who info, or origination information of the portrait; (5) mostly, an illustrative portrait or photograph exhibiting, for instance, a e-book disguise of the person, or picture of a standard paintings reminiscent of a dam or a canal.

This quantity contains virtually 1,000 members, of which there are just 2 girls. The ebook additionally offers an in depth Index, and a 2-page checklist of people (normally born in Europe) indexed in past volumes (1 and 2), yet having a relation to this quantity three. The publication additionally includes a map of the united states highlighting the foremost American rivers, with a detailed relation to initiatives performed via a number of of the participants awarded within the book.

This ebook offers a stunning evaluate of the numerous scientists and engineers having contributed to the present wisdom in hydraulic engineering and fluid mechanics. the writer made each attempt in compiling an important hydraulicians of the us during this paintings because it turns into even more tricky in destiny a long time to discover biographical information on those, given the present coverage that so few memoirs or necrologues are published.