George Fillmore Swain
American civil engineer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Fillmore Swain was a civil engineer from the United States. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later at Harvard University. Biography He was graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1877 and then studied in Berlin, German Empire, for three years. On his return to the United States, he settled in Boston. In 1887 he became professor of civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was then located in Boston. He remained at MIT until 1909, when he became professor of civil engineering at the Harvard Graduate School of Applied Science. He also served as consulting engineer of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission, and in 1894 became a member of the Boston Transit Commission, becoming its chairman in 1913.
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- Mohr's graphical theory of earth pressure (1882) (4)
- FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE PROFESSOR OF ENGINEERING. (1908) (2)
- Statistics of Water Power Employed in Manufacturing in the United States (1888) (2)
- Technology and Industrial Efficiency (1912) (1)
- Engineering Education: An Informal Discussion (1906) (1)
- On the application of the principle of virtual velocities to the determination of the deflection and stresses of frames (1883) (1)
- Scientific Books: Bridge Engineering (1)
- Discussion of "Engineering Education: Technical Papers Presented at a Joint Session with the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, at the Annual Meeting, January 17; 1923: Co-Operation of National Engineering Societies in Engineering Education" (0)
- Railway signaling as applied to large installations . Railway signaling - discussion no. 622 . Railway signaling . Railway signaling - the block system (0)
- Discussion of Theory and Formulas for the Analytical Computation of A Three-Span Suspension Bridge With Braced Cable by Leon S. Meisseiff (0)
- Conservation of water by storage (0)
- Strength of materials (0)
- On the Calculation of the Stresses In Bridges for the Actual Concentrate Loads (1887) (0)
- The Teaching of Mathematics to Students of Engineering (1913) (0)
- Discussion of "Engineering Education: Technical Papers Presented at a Joint Session with the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, at the Annual Meeting, January 17; 1923: The New Project for the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education." (0)
- Discussion of On Specifications for Strength of Iron Bridges by Joseph M. Wilson (0)
- Closure of "On a New Principle in the Theory of Structures" (0)
- 1916 SECNAV SPEE Report (1916) (0)
- Discussion of "Engineering Education in Its Relation to Training for Engineering Work" (1912) (0)
- Fundamental properties of materials (0)
- Eddy's Solution of a Problem in Graphical Statics (1891) (0)
- Discussion of Forests and Reservoirs in Their Relation to Stream Flow, With Particular Reference to Navigable Rivers by H. M. Chittenden (0)
- Symposium on “the status of the engineer” (1915) (0)
- Some Tendencies and Problems of the Present Day and the Relation of the Engineer Thereto: Address at the Annual Convention, in Ottawa, Ontario, June 18th, 1913 (0)
- Stress, graphical statics and masonry (0)
- Relative Permanence of Steel and Masonry Construction. An Informal Discussion (1902) (0)
- THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ENGINEERING AS A PROFESSION AND ITS RELATION TO THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. (1910) (0)
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