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    The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman
    The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman
    The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman
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    The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman - Robert M. Vogel

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      Title: The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman

      Author: Robert M. Vogel

      Release Date: October 20, 2010 [EBook #33912]

      Language: English

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      This is Paper 36 from the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240, comprising Papers 34-44, which will also be available as a complete e-book.

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      SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

      UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM

      BULLETIN 240

      SMITHSONIAN PRESS

      MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY

      Contributions

      From the

      Museum

      of History and

      Technology

      Papers 34-44

      On Science and Technology

      SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION · WASHINGTON, D.C. 1966

      Publications of the United States National Museum

      The scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National Museum include two series, Proceedings of the United States National Museum and United States National Museum Bulletin.

      In these series, the Museum publishes original articles and monographs dealing with the collections and work of its constituent museums—The Museum of Natural History and the Museum of History and Technology—setting forth newly acquired facts in the fields of anthropology, biology, history, geology, and technology. Copies of each publication are distributed to libraries, to cultural and scientific organizations, and to specialists and others interested in the different subjects.

      The Proceedings, begun in 1878, are intended for the publication, in separate form, of shorter papers from the Museum of Natural History. These are gathered in volumes, octavo in size, with the publication date of each paper recorded in the table of contents of the volume.

      In the Bulletin series, the first of which was issued in 1875, appear longer, separate publications consisting of monographs (occasionally in several parts) and volumes in which are collected works on related subjects. Bulletins are either octavo or quarto in size, depending on the needs of the presentation. Since 1902 papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum of Natural History have been published in the Bulletin series under the heading Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, and since 1959, in Bulletins titled Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, have been gathered shorter papers relating to the collections and research of that Museum.

      The present collection of Contributions, Papers 34-44, comprises Bulletin 240. Each of these papers has been previously published in separate form. The year of publication is shown on the last page of each paper.

      Frank A. Taylor

      Director, United States National Museum

      Contributions from

      The Museum of History and Technology:

      Paper 36

      The Engineering Contributions

      of Wendel Bollman

      Robert M. Vogel

      EARLY CAREER   80

      THE BOLLMAN TRUSS   85

      W. BOLLMAN AND COMPANY   91

      FINAL USE OF THE BOLLMAN TRUSS   95

      KNOWN BOLLMAN WORKS   99

      BIBLIOGRAPHY  104

      Figure 1.—Wendel Bollman, C.E. (1814-1884). (Photo courtesy of Dr. Stuart Christhilf.)

      Robert M. Vogel

      THE ENGINEERING CONTRIBUTIONS OF WENDEL BOLLMAN

      The development of structural engineering has always been as dependent upon the availability of materials as upon the expansion of theoretical concepts. Perhaps the greatest single step in the

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