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Greetings All,
On 21-23 October 1999, the Institute for the History of Technology and
Industrial Archaeology is holding an International Historic Bridges
Conference in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA, home of the 1849 Wheeling
Suspension Bridge. Restoration of the historic span across the Ohio River
was completed earlier this month in celebration of its 150th anniversary.
Engineers, historians, and other scholars from around the United States and
Europe will present papers on a variety of topics described in the program
below. Register by filling out and returning the form at the bottom of
this message by mail or fax. IHTIA // 1535 Mileground // Morgantown, WV
26505. For more information, please call 304-293-7169, Fax 304 293-2449,
email [log in to unmask], or visit the conference website at
http://www.as.wvu.edu/ihtia/wheeling.html
Hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Dan Bonenberger
Research Manager
Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology
West Virginia University
1535 Mileground
Morgantown WV, 26505
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THURSDAY 21 OCTOBER 1999
A.M.
7:30 Registration - Lobby, McLure Hotel
8:25 Welcome - Grand Ballroom. Renay Conlin, Commissioner, WV Department
of Culture and History, Charleston; Samuel Bonasso, WV Secretary of
Transportation; David Hardesty, President, West Virginia University.
8:30-12:00 Presiding: Eric DeLony, Chief, Historic American Engineering
Record, National Park Service.
8:30 To Make the Crooked Ways Straight and the Rough Ways Smooth, Building
the Cumberland Road, Our Nation's First Interstate Highway.
Billy Joe Peyton of Paul D. Marshall and Associates, Charleston, WV
9:15 Charles Ellet, Jr. and the Wheeling Suspension Bridge
Emory L. Kemp, Director, Institute for the History of Technology and
Industrial Archaeology, West Virginia University.
10:00 Break
10:30 Rehabilitaton of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge
Michael Cuddy, A.G. Lichtenstein & Associates, Langhorne, PA
11:15 The Tournon-Tain Suspenson Bridge : A Case Study in Technology
Transfer and Innovation
Michel Cotte, L'Universite de Technologie de Belfort, Mont Beliard, France
12:00 LUNCH (individual arrangements)
P.M.
1:30-5:00
Presiding: Robert M. Vogel
Curator Emeritus
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1:30 Early Development of Long Span Suspension Bridges in Great Britian
Roland A. Paxton, Dept. of Civil & Offshore Engineering,
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
2:15 A History of Wrought Iron Suspension Bridge Cables
Donald Sayenga, Consultant
Bethlehem, PA
3:00 BREAK
3:00 Light, Aerial Structures of Modern Engineering: Early Suspension
Bridges in the Ohio Valley
David A. Simmons, Associate Editor, Timeline, Ohio Historical Society
Columbus, Ohio
4:15 The Wheeling Suspension Bridge Court Case
Elizabeth Brand Moore, Indiana University/Purdue University
Indianapolis Campus
6:00-7:00
RECEPTION - West Virginia Independence Hall
8:00-10:30
Dinner - Mount de Chantel Visitation Academy
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Presiding: Patrick S. Cassidy
Cassidy, Myers, Cogan, Voeglin & Tennant, L.C., Wheeling, WV
FRIDAY 22 OCTOBER 1999
A.M.
7:30 REGISTRATION, Lobby, McLure Hotel
8:30-12:00
Grand Ballroom, McLure Hotel
Presiding: Bob Weible, Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commision,
Harrisburg, PA
8:30 Stiffening Suspension Bridges
Dario Gasparini, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, et al.
9:15 Rehabilitation of the Detroit-Superior High Level Bridge,
Cleveland, OH
William Vermes
HNTB, Cleveland, OH
10:00 BREAK
10:30 Blacksmith Bridges in Scotland and Ireland
E. C. Ruddock
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
11:15 Graphic Funicular Analysis Methods and Their Application to Stone
and Metal Bridges
Thomas Boothby
Pennsylvania State University
12:00 LUNCH
P.M.
1:30-5:00
Presiding: Robert Passfield, Parks Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1:30 Restoration of the Aldrich 1858 Whipple Iron Bridge on the Erie Canal
Jay Harding
Elmyra, NY
2:15 Evolution of Timber Truss Road Bridges in New South Wales, Australia
Donald Fraser, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3:00 BREAK
3:15 A Force Measurement Device for Cable Bridges: Lessons Learned
Hota V.S. Ganga Rao, Smaer H. Petro, Shen-En Chen,
Constructed Facilitites Center, West Virginia
University, Morgantown, WV
4:00 Presiding: Karen Young
Ohio Department of Transportation
Columbus, OH
Panel: A Case Study on the Preservation & Interpretation of a Stone
Masonry Arch Bridge on the Historic National Road
6:00 Cash Bar - Fort Henry Club
6:30 CONFERENCE BANQUET
7:00-8:00
Conference speaker
Robert M. Vogel, Curator Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution
David A. Simmons, Host, Ohio Historical Society
9:00 GRAND CELEBRATION OF THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WHEELING SUSPENSION
BRIDGE
Lighting the Bridge
SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER 1999
9:30-12:30
Tour of Wheeling Area Historic Bridges
12:30-1:30
Box Lunch
Conference Summary and Adjourment
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Registration Form
Name______________________________ Telephone__________________________
Organization___________________________Email____________________________
Address________________________________City____________________________
State/Province______________Country____________________PostalCode_________
Fees: $165.00. Fee includes two dinners, reception, coffee breaks, program,
and two books: the conference proceedings and a Pictorial History of the
Wheeling Suspension Bridge. Special one-day registration, $80, includes one
banquet but no publications. Optional Saturday tour including box lunch,
$35. Inquire about special student rates.
Fees DO NOT include hotel accomidations. Individual arrangements may be
made with: McLure House, Hotel and Conference Center, 12th and Market St.,
Wheeling WV 26003. Telephone 304-232-0300, Fax 304-233-1653. There is a
special conference rate of $68 per room.
Return this form to: Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial
Archaeology, 1535 Mileground, Morgantown WV 26505. Fax: 304-293-2449.
Telephone 304-293-7169 or emailquestions to [log in to unmask] MAKE CHECKS
PAYABLE to: WVU Foundation.
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