BOARDMAN

BOARDMAN 21.01. 1869 Menasha WI/USA 07.01. 1965 Reno NV/USA Horace Prentiss Boardman received his degree in civil engineering in 1894 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison WI. He was first a topographic surveyor in charge of the Sanitary District, Chicago, was then active for various construction firms until being appointed professor of civil engineering in 1907 at University of Nevada, Reno. From 1921, he was there in addition Director of the Engineering Experiment Station, and served from 1917 to 1921 as acting Dean of the College of Engineering. Since 1927, Boardman chaired the Nevada Snow Surveys, including stream runoff in the Sierra Nevada mountains. One interruption to his consecutive work at Reno came during World War I, when he was on leave of absence in 1918, employed on the engineering force of the US Explosive Plant at Nitro WV. He retired as professor in 1939 continuing as a consultant. He received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from University of Nevada in 1950. Boardman designed various structures, including the substructure of Glasgow Bridge MO over the Missouri River. Further work also comprised railroad projects, in which hydraulic problems were particularly considered. Another work related to retaining walls and earth pressures, published in 1905. His work in snow surveys might be described as a hobby, though it proved of immense value for estimating and predicting the seasonal water sources for industrial use, especially following disastrous droughts in the 1930s. He was member ASCE, and of the American Geophysical Union AGU in whose journal he published numerous articles on stream flow. Anonymous (1921). Boardman, Prof. Horace Prentiss. American men of science 3: 69. Garrison: New York. Anonymous (1964). Boardman, Horace P. Who’s who in engineering 9: 168. Lewis: New York. Anonymous (1981). Horace P. Boardman. Trans AGU 46(3): 599-600. Boardman, H.P. (1949). Snow surveys for forecasting stream flow in Western Nevada. Bulletin 184. Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station: Reno. Boardman, H.P. (1951). Buttress type dam with curved upstream face. Civil Engineering 20(6):346. Boardman, H.P. (1952). Truckee River floods and high water years. Private printing. Boardman, H.P. (1959). Some interesting and important facts about Lake Tahoe. Snow Surveys Committee of State Association of Soil Conservation Districts: Reno. www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov P

BOCK C.A. 20.04. 1883 West Side IA/USA 01.11. 1966 Pompano Beach FL/USA Carl August Bock obtained in 1906 the BS degree from Cornell College, Mount Vernon IA, and the CE degree in 1908. He was employed from 1906 to 1912 in the USA, Mexico, Bolivia, and the West Indies with various constructions, then until 1933 he was involved in planning, design and construction of water control projects, as engineer in charge of a consulting engineer. From 1933 to 1940 Bock was with the Tennessee Valley Authority TVA, serving as director of engineering, assistant chief engineer, and chief consulting engineer. He was in parallel consulting engineer of the Puerto Rico Utilization of Water Resources, San Juan PR, since 1935, and consulting engineer of the National Resources Planning Board, and consulting engineer of the Interstate Commission on the Delaware River Basin since 1939. Bock had a general engineering practice from 1940 to 1942, and then was the chief engineer of the Puerto Rico Water Resources. He was member of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE. Bock was the first engineer employed by the TVA when it was organized in 1933. He was soon promoted to assistant chief engineer and was then chief consulting engineer. He had a long connection to the hydro-electricity program in Puerto Rico, mainly after World War II. The Caonillas hydro-electric scheme was completed in 1949, constituting then the largest of the power units built under the direction of the Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority, an organization that supplied 15% of the island’s power. Caonillas Dam consists of a straight gravity concrete dam 66 m high and 230 m long located in a narrow gorge, creating the largest reservoir of the island, and providing a head of 160 m on the turbines. Bock’s contribution to the power supply of Puerto Rico was particularly acknowledged by the consumers. Anonymous (1939). Carl A. Bock: Resigning TVA engineer. Engineering News-Record 123(Nov.30): 721. P Anonymous (1948). Carl A. Bock. Engineering News-Record 140(Mar.25): 466. P Anonymous (1948). Bock, Carl A. Who’s who in engineering 6: 190. Lewis: New York. Bock, C.A. (1918). History of the Miami Flood Control Project. MCD: Dayton OH. Bock, C.A., Moneymaker, B.C. (1934). Stratigraphy and structural geology of the Hiwassee River Basin in vicinity of Coleman dam site. TVA: Knoxville TN. Pike, A., Morgan, A.E., Bock, C.A. (1934). Virginia-West Virginia Bandy quadrangle. US Geological Survey: Washington DC. https://nationalcalamityeaster1913flood.blogspot.ch/2013/01/morgans-pyramids.html