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Gustav Lindenthal (May 21 1850--July 31 1935) was a civil engineer, best known for his project of the Hell Gate Bridge across New York City's East River, which was completed in 1916. He was innate inside Brünn, Austria. When working witharound railroads & bridges in two Austria & Sweden, he emigrated to the United States in 1871, where, anterior to his operate on the Hell Gate Bridge, he served as a construction engineer on the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition from 1874 to 1877. He died within Metuchen, New Jersey.
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Lindenthal, Gustav Short biography of the builder of the Queensboro bridge and the Smithfield Street Bridge with its lenticular truss. 1850 - 1935 Hudson River Bridge (unbuilt) Descriptive history of the unbuilt river Bridge. Includes drawings of the original proposals by Gustav Lindenthal. Smithfield Street Bridge Historical and present day photographs, data and history. A Run for Gustav Lindenthal Essay by Steven Cangemi about Lindenthal's dream to construct a bridge across the Hudson River. |
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