Education |
Apprenticeship as
macon, then studies at the Polytechnicum in Dresden |
1870 - 1874 |
Bridges in Austria and
Switzerland |
1874 |
Immigrates to the
United States |
1874 - 1877 |
Engineer for the
Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia |
1877 - 1890 |
Engineering office in
Pittsburgh |
1890 |
Moves to New York |
1902 - 1903 |
Commissioner of New
York bridges |
1909 |
Manhattan Bridge |
1931 |
Bayonne Bridge over
the Kill van Kull with Othmar Ammann |
1933 (1934?) |
Honorary Doctoral
Degrees from the German Technical School in Brünn (Brno) and
Technical School in Dresden |