Henry C. Goldmark (1857–1941) was an American engineer who designed and installed the
Panama Canal locks
The Panama Canal locks ( es, Esclusas del Canal de Panamá) are a lock system that lifts ships up to the main elevation of the Panama Canal and down again. The original canal had a total of six steps (three up, three down) for a ship's passage. ...
.
Biography
Henry Goldmark was born in
New York City
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on June 15, 1857.
He was an 1874 graduate of the
New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering
The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United Sta ...
. He earned a bachelor's degree at
Harvard
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
, and graduated from the
Royal Polytechnic University at Hanover,
German Empire
The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...
in 1880.
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He married Mary Carter Tomkins on June 8, 1899, and they had two children.][
He died in ]Nyack, New York
Nyack () is a Village (New York), village located primarily in the Town (New York), town of Orangetown, New York, Orangetown in Rockland County, New York, Rockland County, New York (state), New York, United States. Incorporated in 1872, it retai ...
on January 15, 1941, after being struck by an automobile the previous night.
References
1857 births
1941 deaths
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
American engineers
Harvard University alumni
University of Hanover alumni
Expatriates in the German Empire
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