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HUBER W.L. 04.01. 1883 San Francisco CA/USA 30.05. 1960 San Francisco CA/USA Walter Leroy Huber obtained the BS degree in civil engineering from the College of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley CA, in 1905. He was then assistant to John D. Galloway (1869-1943), from 1908 chief engineer and supervising architect at his Alma Mater, from 1910 then district engineer of the US Forest Service, when forming his private practice. Huber was member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, director from 1922 to 1924, vicepresident from 1926 to 1927, and ASCE President in 1953. The Walter L. Huber Collection contains over 4,000 photographs of engineering and social interest. The Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize recognizes members of the Society having demonstrated notable achievements in research related to civil engineering, with preference to members below 40 years of age. During his years as a private consultant, Huber was engaged in hydro-electric, hydraulic and structural work, and valuation throughout the West. He was a consultant for dams, including Hogan, Big Tujunga, and Morris Dam in California; he also was consulting engineer for the California Debris Commission on arch dams; a member of the board of consulting engineers of the US War Department on flood control projects on the Los Angeles, the San Gabriel, and the Santa Ana Rivers, including the associated dams; member of the Governor’s Advising Engineering Commission on the State Water Resources Development in 1931; special consultant of the War Department on water supplies; regional water consultant of the National Resources Planning Board from 1934 to 1943; and a special consultant on earthquake resistant design. He has written a large number of papers on these topics. He was named in 1954 by President Eisenhower adviser on the controversial study of the Arkansas-White-Red River Basins. Anonymous (1948). Huber, Walter L. Who’s who in engineering 6: 966. Lewis: New York. Anonymous (1952). Huber nominated for highest ASCE post. Engineering News-Record 148(May8): 80. P Huber, W.L. (1913). Report on the hydro-electric system of the Utica Gold Mining Company. Sierra and San Francisco Power Co.: San Francisco. Huber, W.L. (1953). An engineering century in California. Trans. ASCE CT: 97-111. Huber, W.L. (1960). Scrapbooks on hydroelectric and hydraulic projects, and water issues, 1913-1960. San Francisco. https://library.ucr.edu/wrca/collections/huber/index.html P

HUGHES 23.10. 1871 Centralia PA/USA 01.03. 1930 Cambridge MA/USA Hector James Hughes obtained the AB degree from Harvard University, Cambridge MA, in 1894, and the SB degree from its Lawrence Scientific School in 1899. He was from 1894 to 1898 in the office of the town engineer, Brookline MA, and from 1900 to 1902 resident engineer in charge of construction in Iowa. Further, from 1903 to 1913 he was associate, and from 1914 until his retirement professor of civil engineering at the Harvard University. He also was from 1914 to 1918 professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, Cambridge MA, and dean of the Harvard University Engineering School from 1920. Hughes was Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science AAAS, the American Society of Municipal Improvement ASMI, the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE, the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, and the Society of Promotion of Engineering Education. Around 1900, several textbooks were written in the United States, among which is also the 1911 book by Hughes and Arthur Truman Safford (1867-1951), consulting engineer at Boston MA, and a part-time lecturer at Harvard. While the book followed the pattern by then so well established, it also involves originality and perception, employing excellent flow diagrams, logarithmic plots, and a close tie between theory, including the Bernoulli equation, and engineering practice. Another, even better book was previously published by Georg Edmond Russell (1877-1953), also a Bostonian, who studied at MIT and in 1905 joined the MIT staff, and remained there all through his life. His 1909 text book on hydraulics went through many editions, and was praised for its simplicity in explanations rather than its originality. Anonymous (1924). Hughes, Hector James. Who’s who in America 13: 1663. Marquis: Chicago. Anonymous (1943). Hughes, Hector J. Who was who in America 1: 603. Marquis: Chicago. Hughes, H.J., Safford, A.T. (1911). A treatise on hydraulics. Macmillan: New York. Hughes, H.J., Munro, W.B., Wilson, E.B. (1925). Minute on the life of Prof. George Chandler Whipple. Science 61(1572): 179-180. Hughes, H.J.(1930). Engineering and other applied sciences in the Harvard Engineering School. The development of Harvard University 1869-1929, S.E. Morison, ed. Cambridge MA. Rouse, H. (1976). Hector J. Hughes. Hydraulics in the United States 1776-1976: 83. Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research: Iowa City. https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/686087?buttons=y P