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A Century in the Works - Freese and Nichols, Consulting Engineers, 1894-1994 (Hardcover)
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A Century in the Works - Freese and Nichols, Consulting Engineers, 1894-1994 (Hardcover)
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In November of 1891, at the age of twenty-five, John MacDonald
Blackstock Hawley arrived in Fort Worth, Texas. A civil engineer
from Minnesota, Hawley "hung out his shingle" in 1894 and began a
tradition of engineering in Texas that his successors in the firm
of Freese and Nichols have continued for one hundred years.
This history of Freese and Nichols focuses on the firm's
contributions, design innovations, and "firsts" in water supply,
water treatment, and wastewater engineering; transportation design
for roads, bridges, and airports; city and regional planning;
environmental science; and general civil and environmental
engineering. A personal as well as professional account, A Century
in the Works offers anecdotes about John Hawley's battle-ax punch
and eccentric scientific experiments, Simon Freese's penchant for
practical jokes, and Marvin Nichols's "water fights" and
genealogical shakeups of his family tree.
The Freese and Nichols story will interest urban and environmental
historians, professional engineers, and those working in related
fields of hydraulic engineering, municipal and industrial water and
sanitary systems, water quality, dam safety, waste management,
transportation systems, and urban development.
The student of Texas history will find much of interest here as
well. In many ways, the history of Freese and Nichols parallels
that of the state for the past one hundred years.
The firm has had a pivotal role in developing Texas water resources
since Hawley arrived in the state. And it will be the rare Texas
reader who has never gone boating or picnicking at one of the over
a hundred Texas lakes engineered by the firm in the intervening
century.
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