Bridge Repair Manuscript

Raymond Patterson

Published by Manuscript., 1941

About this Item

Manuscript notebook and other assorted documents on concrete and cement failure in bridges. 1939/1941. __+__ Notebook of Raymond Patterson of the Dur-ite Company of Chicago. 9 x 6 inches, 75pp. With 10 photographs of cracks and structure/material failure in (unidentified) bridges. Also includes a letter to the recipient (Dr. Hans J. Reissner) and four other documents. VG condition.__+__ Hans J. Reissner was a leading German pioneer in aeronautics and aeronautical engineering. He was appointed to the chair vacated by Arnold Sommerfeld at the Technische Hochschul at Aachen, where he established the aerodynamics laboratory. He also designed the great experimental wind tunnel at Aachen and was its second director (after T. von Karman). He went on to the University of Berlin where he remained until 1938, when he left Germany for the United States. Reissner held a chair at the Illinois Institute of Technology and in 1944 joined the faculty at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He became a U.S. citizen in 1944. Van Karman spoke very highly of Reissner and attributed his work in aerodynamics to be as important as those advances made by Prandtl (see von Karman s Wind and Beyond). Reissner was also celebrated with two anniversary volumes of Applied Mathematiics for his 60th and 75th birthdays (in 1934 and 1949).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bridge Repair Manuscript
• Publisher: Manuscript.
• Publication Date: 1941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
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