He apprenticed in construction, and worked with his brother-in-law Wm. Howe to perfect the Howe truss bridge, buying the patent rights in 1842 and eventually constructing hundreds of bridges using his ...
The railroad tycoon was responsible for the construction of Howe truss bridges across New England and fueled the monopoly of the Standard Oil corporate trust. The 1876 collapse of the Ashtabula River ...
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