Stefan Władysław Bryła (Polish pronunciation: ; born 17 August 1886 in

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– died 3 December 1943 in

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) was a Polish construction

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and

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pioneer. He designed and built the first welded road bridge in the world.

Biography

Bryła was a professor at the Lwów University of Technology from 1927 and at the

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from 1934. Bryła was the author of basic methods of welding steel structures. In 1927 he designed the

Maurzyce Bridge The Maurzyce Bridge (Polish: ''Most w Maurzycach'') is a bridge over the Słudwia River (tributary of Bzura) in Central Poland. It is known as the first entirely welded road bridge and the second welded bridge of any category in the world. The ...

, first welded

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in the world. The bridge was erected across the Słudwia River in Maurzyce near Łowicz, Poland in 1929. It was still in use in 1977 at which point plans were undertaken to replace it with a wider structure. Consequently, the bridge was reinstalled as a historical monument at a site slightly upstream. In 1995, the

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presented a Historic Welded Structure Award for the bridge to Poland. He also designed high rise buildings: Drapacz Chmur in

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and the Prudential in Warsaw in 1932. During

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, Bryła taught at the Secret Universities. His teaching there led to his arrest by the

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on 16 November 1943, together with his family. After a brief incarceration in the

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, he was subsequently executed during the Action AB by the

on 3 December 1943 at 13 Puławska Street. His commemorative grave is located at the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.

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