biography
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| lived:
| (1832–97)
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| biography:
| Civil engineer, educator, and writer, born in Smyrna, New York, USA. He designed an ore dock in 1866 and invented an air compressor and a steam rock drill. He taught at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (1872–97), and wrote works on mechanics, bridge construction, and mathematics. |
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