ABSTRACT
TINNEY 11.05. 1925 Man Ont./CA 10.12. 1974 Mexico City/MX Edwy Roy Tinney made civil engineering studies at University of Washington, Pullman WA, receiving a MSc degree in 1950 and obtaining the PhD degree from St. Anthony Falls SAF Hydraulic Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN in 1955. He then joined the Albrook Hydraulic Laboratory, Washington State University, serving as its first director. He worked tirelessly to build up the lab and the staff. He was responsible for planning the Central North American Water Project, a plan to irrigate the great plains from northern Canada to Mexico using the waters from the Arctic Ocean. He was in parallel professor there of civil engineering. In 1968 he moved as chief of the planning division of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources to Canada. Tinney has contributed to hydraulic engineering within a short period. Besides being laboratory director and responsible for its management, he published in various fields of hydraulics. His most notable research projects include fuse plugs corresponding to elements located on spillway crest that are washed out in excess of a certain discharge. Another topic of interest were advancing fluid flows in originally dry channels, as occur in irrigation technique. He also contributed to the hydraulics of penstock trifurcations as used in hydropower plants. He passed away at age 49 only from a heart failure following a tennis match in Mexico City, during which time he was adviser for the World Bank. He was a charter member of the American Water Resources Association AWRA. Anonymous (1956). E. Roy Tinney. Engineering News-Record 157(Nov.22): 53-54. P Anonymous (1968). E.R. Tinney. Engineering Journal 51(3): 54. P Soliman, M.M., Tinney, E.R. (1968). Flow around 180° bends in open rectangular channels. Journal of the Hydraulics Division ASCE 94(HY4): 893-908; 95(HY2): 729-731; 95(HY3): 1064; 96(HY1): 257-258. Tinney, E.R. (1957). Summary of the research program at R.L. Albrook Hydraulic Laboratory. WSC Hydraulics Conference, 99-110. State College of Washington: Pullman WA. Tinney, E.R., Hsu, E.Y. (1961). Mechanics of washout of an erodible fuse plug. Journal of the Hydraulics Division ASCE 87(HY3): 1-29. Tinney, E.R., Bassett, D.L. (1961). Terminal shape of a shallow liquid front. Journal of the Hydraulics Division ASCE 87(HY5): 117-133; 88(HY2): 183-186; 88(HY5): 277-280. Tinney, E.R. (1962). The process of channel degradation. Journal of Geophysical Research 67(4): 1475-1480.
