Manuscripts
Troelsch bridge building papers: manuscript
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- Description
- Collection of technical observations and memoranda related to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The manuscript is made up of notes based on reports and information from H. C. Hunter, Fred A. Pneumann, and others, concerning anchorages, cable spinning (including a daily cable spinning report from 1935, December 3), and erection of the towers during the construction of the bridge. The manuscript contains numerous pencil drawings, diagrams, and two photographs of bridge cables. Henry W. Troelsch was assistant engineer at the American Bridge Company, the company responsible for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
- Production date
- 1935-1936.
- Call number
- mssHM 75947
- Provenance
- Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
- Associated people
- Hunter, H. C.
- Pneumann, Fred A.
- Associated organization
