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| Education
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| Apprenticeship as macon, then studies at the Polytechnicum in Dresden |
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1870 - 1874
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| Bridges in Austria and Switzerland |
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1874
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| Immigrates to the United States |
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1874 - 1877
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| Engineer for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia |
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1877 - 1890
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| Engineering office in Pittsburgh |
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1890
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| Moves to New York |
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1902 - 1903
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| Commissioner of New York bridges |
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1909
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| Manhattan Bridge |
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1931
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| Bayonne Bridge over the Kill van Kull with Othmar Ammann |
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1933
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| Honorary Doctoral Degrees from the German Technical School in Brünn (Brno) and Technical School in Dresden |
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Lindenthal, Gustav A Discussion of Long Span Bridges (I), in
"Engineering Record", 3 March 1888 .
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Lindenthal, Gustav A Discussion of Long Span Bridges (II), in
"Engineering Record", 10 March 1888 .
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Lindenthal, Gustav A Discussion of Long Span Bridges (III), in
"Engineering Record", 24 March 1888 .
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Lindenthal, Gustav Rebuilding of the Monongahela Bridge, at Pittspurgh, Pa., in
"Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers", 1883, n. 12 .
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Billington, David P. The Tower and the Bridge, Princeton University Press, Princeton (USA) , ISBN 069102393X, 1983; pp. 122-5.
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Petroski, Henry Engineers of Dreams, Vintage Books, New York (USA) , ISBN 0679730210, 1995; pp. 122-216.
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Ricken, Herbert Der Bauingenieur, Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin (Germany) , ISBN 3345002663, 1994; pp. 223.
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