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Gustav Lindenthal was born in Bruun, Austria on May 24, 1850. He attended some classes at the Provincial College of Brunn and at the polytechnical schools of Brunn and Vienna. He began his engineering career on the Austrian Empress Elizabeth railroad in 1870 and moved to Vienna in 1872 as an Assistant Engineer for the Union-Baugesellschaft ...
May 21, 2018 · Learn about Gustav Lindenthal, an Austrian-American civil engineer who designed bridges in Pittsburgh and New York. See images of his lenticular truss bridge, his Hell Gate Bridge, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge inspired by him.
Gustav Lindenthal’s New York City Hell Gate Bridge ~1917. Captains steering nineteenth century heavy shipping-traffic remained vigilant when navigating the waterway of the 850-foot wide Hell Gate Sector of New York City’s East River, which is flanked by two Manhattan islands and land eastward in Queens, New York.
Jul 4, 2018 · Gustav Lindenthal (1850-1935) was a case in point. An Austrian immigrant who designed New York’s Hell Gate Bridge among others had little formal education and no degree in civil engineering.
Gustav Lindenthal was chief engineer of the New York Connecting Railroad for many years. The length of his section was 3.38 miles long and extended from a point in the Bronx at the intersection with the New Haven Railroad to Stemler Street in Long Island City.
Near the flagship Hell Gate Bridge (STRUCTURE, October 2013), and crossing a former inlet between Wards and Randalls Islands, stands Gustav Lindenthal’s still-in-service 1915 Little Hell Gate Bridge; four unique skewed-deck truss spans of reverse parabolic bowstring arches.
Gustav Lindenthal was a prominent civil engineer known for his innovative contributions to bridge design and infrastructure in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
