Charles Ezra Greene

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Charles Ezra Greene
Cherry Street Bridge in Toledo

Charles Ezra Greene (born February 12, 1842 in Cambridge , USA , † October 16, 1903 in Ann Arbor , USA) was an American civil engineer and professor.

After the Cambridge High School and Phillips Exeter Academy , the pastor's son started college at Harvard College on, closed it in 1862 as a Bachelor of Arts and devoted to the manufacture of breech-loading rifles (breech-loading rifles). From spring 1864 to August 1866 he did his military service on the side of the northern states and left his regiment with the rank of quartermaster. Greene then studied civil engineering at MIT and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in 1868. He earned his first spurs as an assistant engineer on the Bangor & Piscataquis Railroad in Maine . Then Greene worked under General George Thom (1819-1891) in the federal authority for river and harbor construction (US river and harbor improvement) in Maine and New Hampshire . Green changed jobs again and advanced to Bangor City Engineer . After receiving a call to the chair of civil engineering at Washington University in St. Louis , Greene accepted a similar call to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in the fall of 1872 , to which he remained loyal until his death. In quick succession, Greene published textbooks and handbooks on graphostatic studies of trusses, continuous beams and vaults, most of which were published in several editions by the up-and-coming publishing house John Wiley & Sons . After his death, his son, Albert Emerson Greene , obtained new editions of his books. Greene wrote his books from the perspective of construction-oriented or practical structural engineering, since Greene was active in engineering practice. In 1880 he worked as chief engineer of the Toledo Ann Arbor & Northern Railroad and in this capacity was responsible for the wooden scaffolding bridge over the Huron in Ann Arbor. Two years later he was a consulting engineer for the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad bridge over the Maumee River in Toledo, where in 1883 he was responsible for the Cherry Street Bridge. In 1885 he worked as a consultant for the Ann Arbor waterworks, and a year later he also planned the waterworks for Pontiac and Ypsilanti .

In addition to Greene's commitment to university politics for the establishment of professorships for mechanical and marine engineering at the University of Michigan, Greene was held in high regard by his students, as he not only conveyed writing to them in an original way, but also the engineering knowledge between the lines (tacit knowledge). Greene knew how to teach and disseminate structural engineering with a practical purpose. He can be understood as an outstanding pragmatist in structural engineering in its completion phase (1875–1900).

Works

  • Greene, CE: Graphical method for the analysis of bridge trusses. New York: D. Van Nostrand 1875.
  • Greene, CE: Graphical analysis of roof trusses; for the use of engineers, architects and builders. Chicago: GH Frost 1876.
  • Greene, CE: Graphical method for the analysis of bridge trusses; extended to continuous girders and draw spans. New York: Wiley 1877.
  • Greene, CE: Graphics for engineers, architects, and builders: a manual for designers, and a text-book for scientific schools. Trusses and arches analyzed and discussed by graphical methods. New York: Wiley 1879.
  • Greene, CE: Trusses and arches analyzed and discussed by graphical methods. New York: Wiley 1879.
  • Greene, CE: Graphics for engineers, architects, and builders: a manual for designers, and a text-book for scientific schools. New York: Wiley 1879-1881.
  • Greene, CE: Notes on Rankine's Civil engineering, part II, for the use of engineering students University of Michigan. Ann Arbor: handwritten. Manuscript 1891.
  • Greene, CE: Structural mechanics; comprising the strength and resistance of materials and elements of structural design, with examples and problems. New York: Wiley 1897.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Cambridge Public Schools, accessed April 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS. EnzyclopediaCom, accessed April 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Graphostatics. Wissen.de, accessed on April 14, 2019 .
  4. ^ Albert Emerson Greene, Civil Engineering 1903-1912. University of Michigan, accessed April 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Greene, Charles Ezra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American civil engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1903
Place of death Ann Arbor