Charles Conrad Schneider

Charles Conrad Schneider , actually: Carl Conrad Schneider , often referred to as CC Schneider (born April 24, 1843 in Apolda ; † January 8, 1916 in Philadelphia ) was an engineer and bridge designer in the United States .

Schneider was born in Apolda, Thuringia. After emigrating to the United States, he made a name for himself with the construction of the Niagara Cantilever Bridge , one of the first large cantilever bridges . He was part of the group of engineers tasked with installing the Statue of Liberty in New York in 1886 .

In 1905 he was appointed President of the American Society of Civil Engineers , which awarded him the Norman medal in the same year and again in 1908 . This award is given for a submitted work that makes a special contribution to engineering. In 1886 he also received the Rowland Prize of the ASCE.

Schneider was also in charge of examining the steel parts of the Québec Bridge, which collapsed during construction in 1907 . At that time he was chief engineer for the American Bridge Company . Around 1910 he ran an engineering office in Philadelphia with Frederick C. Kunz .

Buildings

• Marent Gulch Trestle , first wooden structure across the Marent Valley for the Northern Pacific Railway , 1883
• Niagara Cantilever Bridge , Niagara Falls , 1883
• Bridge of the Canadian Pacific Railway over the Fraser River , Cisco (Siska), 1884
• First Stoney Creek Bridge on the Canadian Pacific Railway , 1885
• Original design of Washington Bridge , New York, 1886
• Exchange Place , the Pennsylvania Railroad station terminal in Jersey City , 1891, then the largest station in the United States - illustration
• Delaware Bridge , Delaware , ca.1893

literature

• Paul L. Wolfel, Richard Khuen, Jr., OE Hovey: Memoir of Charles Conrad Schneider. In: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Vol. 81, 1917, pp. 1665-1670.
• Daniel Vogt: Structures for America - the Apolda civil engineer Charles Conrad Schneider . In: Apoldaer Heimat 27 (2009), pp. 62–69.