Squire Whipple

Squire Whipple

Infobox Person
name = Squire Whipple


image_size = 200px
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birth_date = birth date|1804|9|16|mf=y
birth_place = Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA
death_date = death date and age|1888|3|15|1804|9|16|mf=y
death_place = Albany, New York, USA
occupation = Civil Engineer
spouse = W. Anna Case
parents = James Whipple and Electa Johnson
children = none

Squire Whipple C.E. (September 16, 1804 – March 15, 1888) was a civil engineer born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA. His family moved to New York when he was thirteen. He studied at Fairfield Academy. He graduated from Union College after only one year. He has become known as the father of iron bridge building in America. [ [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ny0017 Survey number HAER NY-4] - Whipple Cast & Wrought Iron Bowstring Truss Bridge, Normans Kill Vicinity, Albany, Albany County, NY (Biography on page 3)]

He died March 15, 1888 in Albany, New York, USA and was buried in Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, New York.

Bridges

His designs were implemented in numerous bridges, such as Shaw Bridge, "a structure of outstanding importance to the history of American engineering and transportation technology."cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=1386 |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Double-Span Whipple Bowstring Truss Bridge / Shaw Bridge |date=January, 1979 |accessdate=2008-08-09 |author=Raymond W. Smith |publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (includes map and diagrams)]

Patents

* - Bowstring iron-bridge truss (1841)
* - Lift draw bridge

Books

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=inwIAAAAMAAJ A Work on Bridge-Building: Consisting of Two Essays, the One Elementary and General, the Other Giving Original Plans, and Practical Details, for Iron and Wooden Bridges] (1847)

References

External links

* [http://genweb.whipple.org/d0411/I3916.html Genealogy Squire Whipple, Whipple.org]
* [http://www.whipple.org/blaine/squire.html Squire Whipple essay, Whipple.org]
* [http://www.asce.org/history/bio_whipple.html ASCE - History and Heritage of Civil Engineering]
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* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ny0017 Survey number HAER NY-4] - Whipple Cast & Wrought Iron Bowstring Truss Bridge, Normans Kill Vicinity, Albany, Albany County, NY (Biography on page 3)


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