John Alexander Low Waddell

John Alexander Low Waddell
John Alexander Low Waddell
Nascimento	1854 Port Hope, Ontário
Morte	3 de março de 1938 (84 anos) Nova Iorque
Nacionalidade	Estadunidense
Campo(s)	Engenharia civil

John Alexander Low Waddell (Port Hope, Ontário, 1854 – Nova Iorque, 3 de março de 1938) foi um engenheiro civil e prolífico projetista de pontes estadunidense, com mais de mil estruturas a ele creditadas nos Estados Unidos, Canadá, e também no México, Rússia, China, Japão e Nova Zelândia.

ASB Bridge em Kansas City, Missouri

Foi palestrante do Congresso Internacional de Matemáticos em Toronto (1924).

Obras notáveis

• Colorado Street Bridge, Pasadena, California (1913)

Bibliografia

• The Designing of Ordinary Iron Highway Bridges, [1884] (1891), 5th edition (in English). New York: John Wiley & Sons, 252 pages.
• System of Iron Railroad Bridges for Japan (1885). Tokyo: Tokyo University, 258 pages.
• De Pontibus: A Pocket-book for Bridge Engineers, (1898) 1st edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 403 pages.
• Bridge Engineering, Volume I and Volume II, (1916). New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2,177 pages.
• Economics of Bridgework: A Sequel to Bridge Engineering (1921). New York: John Wiley & Sons, 512 pages.
• Memoirs and Addresses of Two Decades, with Frank Woodward Skinner, edited by J.L. Harrington (1928). New York: Mack Printing Company, 1,174 pages.
• Vocational Guidance in Engineering Lines (1933) by the Committee on Engineering Education of the American Association of Engineers. Waddell was a contributor