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Henry Sylvester Jacoby

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According to Wikipedia, Henry Sylvester Jacoby was an American educator, born at Springtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, He was graduated from Lehigh University in 1877 and during the season of 1878 was connected with the topographical corps of the Pennsylvania Geological Survey. During 1879–85, he was chief draftsman in the United States Engineer's Office in Memphis, Tenn. In 1886, he returned to Lehigh, where until 1890 he was instructor of civil engineering; he then accepted a call to Cornell University, where in 1897 he became professor of bridge engineering. Professor Jacoby was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 1901 presided over the Section on Engineering, with the rank of vice-president, and was president of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education in 1915–16. Besides numerous papers on his specialty of bridge engineering, he was the author of:Notes and Problems in Descriptive Geometry Outlines of Descriptive Geometry Text-Book in Plain Lettering with Mansfield MerrimanText Book on Roofs and Bridges with R. P. DavisFoundations of Bridges and Buildings with Roland Parker DavisStructural Details, or Elements of Design in Timber Framing

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Henry Sylvester Jacoby's Published Works

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194000.250.50.7511.251.51.7522.252.52.753

Published Works

  • Timber design and construction (1940) (3)
  • Discussion of Secondary Stresses in Bridges by Cecil Vivian von Abo (0)
  • Discussion of "Insufficient Provision for Counterstresses In Railroad Bridges" (1899) (0)
  • Discussion of "Economics of Steel Arch Bridge" (0)
  • FOUNDATIONS OF BRIDGES AND BUILDINGS ED. 2ND (0)
  • Discussion of "Stress Measurements on the Hell Gate Arch Bridge" (0)
  • Steel Concrete Construction. An Informal Discussion (1901) (0)
  • Stresses in simple trusses (0)
  • Discussion of "Locomotive Loadings for Railway" (0)
  • Discussion of "Comparison of Weights of A Three-Hinged and A Two-Hinged Spandrel-Braced Parabolic Arch" (0)
  • MODERN TREND OF DESIGN FOR POTTERY PLANTS1 (1928) (0)

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