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Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth (1807-2007) of James Pugh Kirkwood: Environmental/Civil Engineer and ASCE Leader
James Pugh Kirkwood was born in Edinburgh, Scotland March 27, 1807 and died in Brooklyn April 22, 1877. In the 1830s, Kirkwood came to the U.S. and worked as an engineer on several railroads, including the expensive Starrucca Viaduct for the Erie Railroad in PA. Kirkwood became an environmental engineering specialist in municipal water works with Brooklyn, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Albany, and served for Lynn, MA in 1877. His 1869 book on water filtration practices in Europe was important to the civil and environmental engineering profession. Three sanitary (environmental) engineers: J. W. Adams, A. W. Craven (Croton Aqueduct) and Kirkwood of six civil engineers placed their names on the October 23, 1852 invitation letter to found ASCEA (and Architects) on November 5, 1852 when twelve engineers visited the Croton Aqueduct Building near Rotunda Park in NYC. Kirkwood served as an ASCEA Director from 1853–1867. In 1867 James P. Kirkwood became the second National President of ASCE. Kirkwood's inaugural ASCE Presidential address became the first ASCE paper in the first Transactions of ASCE.
Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth (1807-2007) of James Pugh Kirkwood: Environmental/Civil Engineer and ASCE Leader
James Pugh Kirkwood was born in Edinburgh, Scotland March 27, 1807 and died in Brooklyn April 22, 1877. In the 1830s, Kirkwood came to the U.S. and worked as an engineer on several railroads, including the expensive Starrucca Viaduct for the Erie Railroad in PA. Kirkwood became an environmental engineering specialist in municipal water works with Brooklyn, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Albany, and served for Lynn, MA in 1877. His 1869 book on water filtration practices in Europe was important to the civil and environmental engineering profession. Three sanitary (environmental) engineers: J. W. Adams, A. W. Craven (Croton Aqueduct) and Kirkwood of six civil engineers placed their names on the October 23, 1852 invitation letter to found ASCEA (and Architects) on November 5, 1852 when twelve engineers visited the Croton Aqueduct Building near Rotunda Park in NYC. Kirkwood served as an ASCEA Director from 1853–1867. In 1867 James P. Kirkwood became the second National President of ASCE. Kirkwood's inaugural ASCE Presidential address became the first ASCE paper in the first Transactions of ASCE.
Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth (1807-2007) of James Pugh Kirkwood: Environmental/Civil Engineer and ASCE Leader
Rogers, Jerry R. (author)
Fourth National EWRI History Symposium at World Environmental and Water Resources Congress ; 2007 ; Tampa, Florida, United States
2007-04-30
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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