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ABC066 Frederick Graff, Rudolph Hering, John C. Trautwine, Lewis Haupt, Charles Day, Emory R. Johnson: Pushing Water, Part 1
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All Bones Considered #066: Pushing Water
- Frederick Graff took over from Benjamin Latrobe to develop the Philadelphia Water Works
- Rudolph Hering was summoned to Chicago to help them with their drinking water problem and helped them 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
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