TY - BOOK ID - 77896331 TI - John Frank Stevens PY - 2013 SN - 0253010691 9780253010698 9780253010612 0253010616 PB - Bloomington Indiana University Press DB - UniCat KW - Railroad engineering KW - Railroad engineers KW - Engineering, Railroad KW - Railroads KW - Transportation engineering KW - Engineers KW - History. KW - Engineering KW - Stevens, John F. KW - Stevens, John Frank, KW - Stevens, Jno. F. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77896331 AB - One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, creating a technical achievement far ahead of its time. Stevens also served for more than five years as the head of the US Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and as a consultant who contributed to many engineering feats, including the contro ER -