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Wendel Bollman

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Wendel Bollman (January 21, 1814 – 1884) was an American self-taught civil engineer, best known for his iron railway bridges. [1]

26 relations: American Civil War, Arch bridge, B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing, Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Benjamin Henry Latrobe II, Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge, Cast iron, Civil engineer, Erie Railroad, Great Allegheny Passage, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, Heritage Documentation Programs, Heritage New Zealand, History of the Germans in Baltimore, Industrial spur, Locomotive, Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, Mount Clare Shops, Savage, Maryland, South Island, Thomas Viaduct, Truss bridge, Warren truss, Wills Creek Bollman Bridge, Wrought iron.

American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Arch bridge

An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch.

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B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Crossings at the Potomac River are a set of railroad bridges that span the Potomac River between Maryland Heights, Maryland and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in the United States.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.

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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830.

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Benjamin Henry Latrobe II

Benjamin Henry Latrobe II (December 19, 1806 – October 19, 1878) was an American civil engineer, best known for his railway bridges, and a railway executive.

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Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge

The Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge at Savage, Maryland is the sole surviving example of a revolutionary design in the history of American bridge engineering.

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Cast iron

Cast iron is a group of iron-carbon alloys with a carbon content greater than 2%.

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Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.

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Erie Railroad

The Erie Railroad was a railroad that operated in the northeastern United States, originally connecting New York City — more specifically Jersey City, New Jersey, where Erie's former terminal, long demolished, used to stand — with Lake Erie.

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Great Allegheny Passage

The Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) is a rail trail in Maryland and Pennsylvania—the central trail of a network of long-distance hiker-biker trails throughout the Allegheny region of the Appalachian Mountains, connecting Washington, D.C. to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States.

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Heritage Documentation Programs

Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) is a division of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) responsible for administering the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).

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Heritage New Zealand

Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, (previously until 2014 named the New Zealand Historic Places Trust) (Pouhere Taonga), is a Crown entity with a membership of around 20,000 people that advocates for the protection of ancestral sites and heritage buildings in New Zealand.

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History of the Germans in Baltimore

The history of the Germans in Baltimore began in the 17th century.

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Industrial spur

An industrial spur is a type of secondary track used by railroads to allow customers at a location to load and unload railcars without interfering with other railroad operations.

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Locomotive

A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.

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Meyersdale, Pennsylvania

Meyersdale is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, on the Casselman River, southeast of Pittsburgh.

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Mount Clare Shops

The Mount Clare Shops is the oldest railroad manufacturing complex in the United States, located in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Savage, Maryland

Savage is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in Howard County, Maryland, about south of Baltimore and north of Washington, D.C. It is situated close to the city of Laurel and to the planned community of Columbia.

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South Island

The South Island (Māori: Te Waipounamu) is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island.

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Thomas Viaduct

The Thomas Viaduct spans the Patapsco River and Patapsco Valley between Relay, Maryland and Elkridge, Maryland, USA.

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Truss bridge

A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements usually forming triangular units.

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Warren truss

A Warren truss or equilateral truss is a type of engineering truss.

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Wills Creek Bollman Bridge

The Wills Creek Bollman Bridge originally served the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Pittsburgh Division main line.

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Wrought iron

puddled iron, a form of wrought iron Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon (less than 0.08%) content in contrast to cast iron (2.1% to 4%).

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Patapsco Bridge and Iron Works, W. Bollman and Company, Wendel Alan Bollman, Wendel C. Bollman.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendel_Bollman

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