Select five (5) of the items below and briefly tell how each relates to the History of Civil Engineering. Harold Malcolm Westergaard Great Northern Railway (U.S.) Millay Viaduct (Millau, France) Leffert L. Buck (1837 to 1909) Burma Road Rear Admiral Harry Harwood Rousseau Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Irondequoit Embankment (1822) Muscle Shoals Canal Firth of Forth Railway Bridge Alden Partridge Philadelphia Municipal Water Supply System Joseph Gilbert Totten Solution It was the creation of 19th century rail road entepreneur, it was the northmost railroad rout in the U.S . The main thing about this railroads was it was only privately funded and successfully built in the history U.S. No federal land grants were used guring its construction , unlike all other transcontinental railroads,it was created in stages,slowly to create profitable lines, contests were held to promote interest in the railroads.,contests were all-inclusive from largest farm animals to largest freight carload capacity and were promoted heavily to immigrants and newcomers froom east. 2. Muscle Shoals Canal The history of Tennessee river is one of commerce. Before the completion of the wilson dam the river was divided by a series of shoals near the muscle shoals area where the tennesse fell over 100\' in approx 30 miles. To adjust to the river and around the shoals, a series of canals and locks were built and improved upon to provide for commercial navigation 3. Firth of forth railway bridge It is the cantilever railway bridge over the firth of fourth,It is consider as iconic structure and is in the UNESCO world heritage.It spans the esttuary of the forth river, it took 10 years to complete its paint job on 125 year old bridge 4. Alden Partridge he was an american surveyor 5. Philadelphia muncipal water supply system Its mision is the planning operation and maintenance of both physical infrastructure and the organized personal need to provide high quality of drinking water and to manage wastewater and stormwater to protect and improve the quality of the regio\'s watersheds.

1. Select five (5) of the items below and briefly tell how each relates to the History of Civil
Engineering. Harold Malcolm Westergaard Great Northern Railway (U.S.) Millay Viaduct
(Millau, France) Leffert L. Buck (1837 to 1909) Burma Road Rear Admiral Harry Harwood
Rousseau Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Irondequoit Embankment (1822)
Muscle Shoals Canal Firth of Forth Railway Bridge Alden Partridge Philadelphia Municipal
Water Supply System Joseph Gilbert Totten
Solution
It was the creation of 19th century rail road entepreneur, it was the northmost railroad rout in the
U.S .
The main thing about this railroads was it was only privately funded and successfully built in the
history U.S.
No federal land grants were used guring its construction , unlike all other transcontinental
railroads,it was created in stages,slowly to create profitable lines, contests were held to promote
interest in the railroads.,contests were all-inclusive from largest farm animals to largest freight
carload capacity and were promoted heavily to immigrants and newcomers froom east.
2. Muscle Shoals Canal
The history of Tennessee river is one of commerce. Before the completion of the wilson dam the
river was divided by a series of shoals near the muscle shoals area where the tennesse fell over
100' in approx 30 miles. To adjust to the river and around the shoals, a series of canals and locks
were built and improved upon to provide for commercial navigation
3. Firth of forth railway bridge
It is the cantilever railway bridge over the firth of fourth,It is consider as iconic structure and is
in the UNESCO world heritage.It spans the esttuary of the forth river, it took 10 years to
complete its paint job on 125 year old bridge
4. Alden Partridge
he was an american surveyor
5. Philadelphia muncipal water supply system
Its mision is the planning operation and maintenance of both physical infrastructure and the
organized personal need to provide high quality of drinking water and to manage wastewater and
stormwater to protect and improve the quality of the regio's watersheds