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Murray And Hazlehurst
Henry R. Hazlehurst (1815-1900) was an American civil engineer. Long employed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, he also helped build the first rail link between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and points south. Hazlehurst was born in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, on March 2, 1815, a son of Richard Hunter Hazlehurst of Mount Holly, New Jersey, and Maria Eleanor Blagden of London, England. In 1819, the family moved to Salem, New Jersey. In the late 1820s, Hazlehurst served as one of the assistants to Benjamin H. Latrobe, a civil engineer who helped survey the Baltimore and Ohio's routes to Harper's Ferry, West Virginia; and Washington, D.C. Latrobe was let go after the work was completed, and in 1835 became chief engineer of the Baltimore and Port Deposit Railroad, with Hazlehurst again among his assistants. In the late 1830s, the B&PD was merged into the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad, forming the first rail link from Philadelphia to Baltimore. (This main line survi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructure that may have been neglected. Civil engineering is one of the oldest engineering disciplines because it deals with constructed environment including planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures, and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems. The term "civil engineer" was established by John Smeaton in 1750 to contrast engineers working on civil projects with the military engineers, who worked on armaments and defenses. Over time, various sub-disciplines of civil engineering have become recognized and much of military engineering has been absorbed by civil engineering. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
