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HULBURD 02.06. 1879 Brasher Falls NY/USA 06.12. 1938 Poughkeepsie NY/USA Lucius Sanford Hulburd graduated as civil engineer from Cornell University, Ithaca NY, in 1902. He was then engaged at York PA on the construction of a 15,000 HP hydro-electric development on River Chattahoochee near Atlanta GA. He returned to New York in 1904 as leveller in the Department of State Engineer and Surveyor, where his employment continued essentially until his death. The first four years were spent on the design of the improved State Canal System, mainly the slopes for the canalized sections of the system. In 1908 Hulburd was placed in charge of one of the first barge canal construction contracts. In 1909, he conducted surveys and made studies on the connection of the Canal with the Finger Lakes with the Improved Erie Canal. He was also assigned for the construction of the Cayuga and Seneca Canals, so that he was located for seven years at Seneca Falls NY, finally as resident engineer. In 1916 he was transferred to Residency No. 8 on the Erie Canal, where he supervised 60 km of canal improvement through Wayne County NY. In 1918 he was commissioned captain of engineers at Camp A.A. Humphreys VA, from where he was discharged at the end of World War I. He returned to his work in the Engineering Department of the State, supervising canal improvement near Rochester NY, retracing surveys of old canal lands and investigating water supplies for State institutions. He was transferred in 1921 to the main office at Albany NY, to compile records for the canal improvement work. From 1923 he was also assigned for the construction of the vehicular bridge over the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie NY. Foundation problems were especially challenging, the main two piers being located in water 18 m deep with an additional 25 m of depth to the rock foundation. The bridge was taken into service in 1930. A heart affliction from which Hulburd never recovered developed during his training at Camp Humphreys, led finally to his death. His character and abilities were recognized by all who knew him. He possessed a fine moral fiber and so despised pretension as to appear at times modest. Hulburd was ASCE associate member from 1911. Anonymous (1939). Lucius S. Hulburd. Trans. ASCE 104: 2040-2042. Hulburd, L.S. (1903). The development of water power in Fall Creek. Cornell University: Ithaca. Hulburd, L.S. (1930). Lucius S. Hulburd papers 1895-1930. Cornell University: Ithaca NY. https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/64072997 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Camillus-aqueduct1.JPG (P)

HUMPHREYS 02.11. 1810 Philadelphia PA/USA 27.12. 1883 Washington DC/USA Andrew Atkinson Humphreys graduated from the US Military Academy in 1831, then serving in the academy and the 1835 Florida campaign. In 1836, he resigned and was employed as civil engineer by the US Government on lighthouses and breakwaters. He was reappointed two years later lieutenant in the Corps of Topographical Engineers. From 1848, then as captain, he was engaged in the hydrographical survey of the delta of Mississippi River, with a view on plans for securing it from inundations and for deepening its channel at the river mouth. He was however compelled by illness in 1851 and went to Europe, to examine the continent’s river deltas, studying the means employed abroad for protection against inundation. Humphreys actively participated in the Civil War, finally as a major-general. In 1866 he was made brigadier-general and given command of the Corps of Engineers, the highest scientific appointment in the US Army. On his return in 1854, Humphreys was given charge in connection with surveys for railways from Mississippi River to the Pacific. In 1857 he resumed his work on the Mississippi delta and in 1861 published with Henry Larcam Abbot (1831-1927) a notable work on the hydraulics of this large river. The report contains numerous velocity profiles measured with the double-float method, which was later not accepted as an accurate means, however. It also contains formulae for the velocity distribution and velocity under uniform flow conditions, yet these data have not been used after around 1900, mainly because of the immense problems associated with prototype observations. Anonymous (1887). Humphreys, A.A. Appletons’ cyclopaedia of American biography 3: 314. P Humphreys, A.A. (1858). Method of obtaining the amount of water in rivers. 35th Congress, Senate, Miscellaneous Documents 49. Washington DC. Humphreys, A.A., Abbot, H.L. (1861). Report upon the physics and hydraulics of the Mississippi River. Professional Papers, Corps of Topographical Engineers: Philadelphia. Humphreys, A.A. (1874). Regulations respecting the navigation of channels at mouth of the Mississippi River. Office of the Chief of Engineers: Washington DC. Humphreys, A.A., Abbot, H.L. (1878). Physics and hydraulics of the Mississippi. Reply to certain criticisms made by Dr. Hagen, Director of Public Works, Prussia. van Nostrand’s Eclectic Engineering Magazine 18(109): 1-3. Reuss, M. (1985). Humphreys and the development of hydraulic engineering: Politics and technology in the Army Corps of Engineers. Technology and Culture 26(1): 1-33.