Pushing Water

ABC:LHS #066   Pushing Water

• Frederick Graff took over from Benjamin Latrobe to develop the Philadelphia Water Works
• Rudolph Hering was summoned to the Midwest to help them with their drinking water problem and helped to reverse the flow of the Chicago River
• John C. Trautwine is remembered for his book, called "The Engineer's Bible," and for predicting a canal could never be built across Panama
• Lewis Haupt was another doubter, although he served on the Panama Committee
• Charles Day Philadelphia company of Day & Zimmerman laid the first concrete at the famed Culebra Locks
• Emory Richard Johnson was the only man in the world with the training to figure out an appropriate fee schedule for the Canal; his formulas were used for more than half a century