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John Alexander Low Waddell

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John Alexander Low Waddell (1854 – March 3, 1938, often shortened to J.A.L. Waddell and sometimes known as John Alexander Waddell) was an American civil engineer and prolific bridge designer, with more than a thousand structures to his credit in the United States, Canada, as well as Mexico, Russia, China, Japan, and New Zealand. [1]

29 relations: ASB Bridge, Caddo Lake Drawbridge, Cantilever bridge, CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge, Dock Bridge, Engineering Legends, Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan, Fourteenth Street Bridge (Ohio River), Goethals Bridge, Hawthorne Bridge, John L. Harrington, John Waddell, Kansas City Southern Railroad Bridge, Cross Bayou, List of civil engineers, List of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers, List of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute people, Lower Hack Lift, Norman Medal, Outerbridge Crossing, Red Rock Bridge, Rensselaer Society of Engineers, Seventh Street–Black River Bridge, Snowden Bridge, Three Sisters (Pittsburgh), Victoria Bridge, Cambridge, New Zealand, Waddell "A" Truss Bridge (Parkville, Missouri), Waddell & Harrington, Washington Bridge (Connecticut), Winant Avenue Bridge.

ASB Bridge

The Armour-Swift-Burlington (ASB) Bridge, also known as the North Kansas City Bridge and the LRC Bridge, is a rail crossing over the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri that formerly also handled car traffic.

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Caddo Lake Drawbridge

The Historic Caddo Lake Drawbridge, also known as the Mooringsport Bridge, is a vertical-lift bridge that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

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Cantilever bridge

A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers, structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end.

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CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge

The Newark Bay Bridge of the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) was a four-track railroad bridge that had four main lift spans.

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Dock Bridge

Dock Bridge is a pair of vertical lift bridges crossing the Passaic River at Newark, Essex County and Harrison, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, used exclusively for railroad traffic.

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Engineering Legends

Engineering Legends: Great American Civil Engineers is a 2005 book by engineer Richard Weingardt.

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Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan

The foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan, known in Japanese as oyatoi gaikokujin (Kyūjitai: 御雇ひ外國人, Shinjitai: 御雇い外国人, "hired foreigners"), were those foreign advisors hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji period.

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Fourteenth Street Bridge (Ohio River)

The Fourteenth Street Bridge, also known as the Ohio Falls Bridge, Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge, Conrail Railroad Bridge or Louisville and Indiana (L&I) Bridge, is a truss drawbridge that spans the Ohio River, between Louisville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Indiana.

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Goethals Bridge

The Goethals Bridge is the name of two crossings connecting Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Staten Island, New York, in the United States.

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Hawthorne Bridge

The Hawthorne Bridge is a truss bridge with a vertical lift that spans the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, joining Hawthorne Boulevard and Madison Street.

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John L. Harrington

John Lyle Harrington (Dec. 7, 1868 – 1942) was an American civil engineer, and consulting engineer, known as co-founder of Waddell & Harrington in 1907, and President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1923-24.

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John Waddell

John Waddell may refer to.

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Kansas City Southern Railroad Bridge, Cross Bayou

Kansas City Southern Railroad Bridge, Cross Bayou, in Shreveport, Louisiana, was built in 1890.

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List of civil engineers

This list of civil engineers is a list of notable people who have been trained in or have practiced civil engineering.

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List of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers

This is a list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers.

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List of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute people

This is a list of people associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, including Presidents, Institute leaders, Trustees, Alumni, Professors and Researchers.

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Lower Hack Lift

The Lower Hack Lift is a lift bridge carrying the New Jersey Transit Morristown Line across the Hackensack River at mile 3.4, Jersey City, New Jersey.

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Norman Medal

The Norman Medal is the highest honor granted by the American Society of Civil Engineers for a technical paper that "makes a definitive contribution to engineering science".

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Outerbridge Crossing

The Outerbridge Crossing is a cantilever bridge which spans the Arthur Kill.

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Red Rock Bridge

The Red Rock Bridge was a bridge across the Colorado River at Topock, Arizona that carried the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad.

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Rensselaer Society of Engineers

The Rensselaer Society of Engineers (RSE) is a social fraternity founded in 1866 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.

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Seventh Street–Black River Bridge

The Seventh Street–Black River Bridge is a bridge carrying Seventh Street over the Black River in Port Huron, Michigan.

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Snowden Bridge

Snowden Bridge is a high-clearance, vertical-lift railroad bridge, built in 1913, that spans the Missouri River between Roosevelt and Richland Counties in Montana, USA, between Bainville and Fairview, Montana, and near Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site and the ghost town of Mondak near Montana's eastern border with North Dakota.

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Three Sisters (Pittsburgh)

The Three Sisters are three very similar self-anchored suspension bridges spanning the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 6th, 7th, and 9th streets, generally running north/south.

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Victoria Bridge, Cambridge, New Zealand

Victoria Bridge (or the High-level bridge) is a hinged braced arch, bridge in New Zealand, linking Cambridge with Leamington (developed after the bridge opened) and spanning the Waikato River.

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Waddell "A" Truss Bridge (Parkville, Missouri)

The Waddell "A" Truss Bridge, also known as Linn Branch Creek Bridge, is a historic truss bridge located at Parkville, Platte County, Missouri.

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Waddell & Harrington

Waddell & Harrington was an American engineering company that designed bridges from 1907 to 1915.

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Washington Bridge (Connecticut)

The Washington Bridge, also known as the Devon Bridge, carries U.S. Route 1 (US 1) over the Housatonic River in the U.S. state of Connecticut, connecting the city of Milford to the town of Stratford.

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Winant Avenue Bridge

The Winant Avenue Bridge is a vehicular movable bridge spanning the Hackensack River in Bergen County, New Jersey from its mouth at Newark Bay.

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References

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

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