John Charles Lounsbury Fish
John Charles Lounsbury Fish | |
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Born | June 3, 1870 Huron County, Ohio |
Died | June 15, 1962 Santa Monica, California |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Cornell University |
Known for | Mathematics of the Paper Location of a Railroad (1905), Earthwork Haul and Overhaul: Including Economic Distribution (1913), Technic of Surveying Instruments and Methods (1917), Engineering Economics: First Principles... (1923), The Engineering Method (1950), Linear Drawing and Lettering for Beginners, Lettering of Working Drawings, Descriptive Geometry |
Scientific career | |
Fields | civil engineering |
John Charles Lounsbury Fish (June 3, 1870 - June 15, 1962) was a Professor of Civil Engineering, Emeritus, at the School of Engineering, Stanford University. He is known for his works Mathematics of the Paper Location of a Railroad (1905), Earthwork Haul and Overhaul: Including Economic Distribution (1913), Technique of Surveying Instruments and Methods (1917), Engineering Economics: First Principles... (1923), The Engineering Method (1950), Linear Drawing and Lettering for Beginners, Lettering of Working Drawings, and Descriptive Geometry, and also as a coauthor of Technic of Surveying Instruments and Methods (with Walter Loring Webb,1917), The Transition Curve... (with Charles Lee Crandall), and The Engineering Profession (with Theodore Jesse Hoover, 1941).
John C. L. Fish provided the critical bridge between the pioneering effort of Arthur M. Wellington in his engineering economics work of the 1870s and the first publication of the ''Principles of Engineering Economy'' in 1930 by Eugene L. Grant.
Life Timeline
1870 J. C. L. Fish was born on June 3, 1870, in Huron County, Ohio, near Lake Erie.
1885 Attended two terms of “prep” at Oberlin College.
1886 At age 16, Fish was offered the position of sole office helper to the City Civil Engineer in Sandusky, OH. (20,000 population) by his 30-year-old cousin.
1887 Began engineering study at Cornell University.
1892 Graduated from the school of Civil Engineering at Cornell University.
1893 Joined Stanford University on the faculty of Civil Engineering.
1894 Published Lettering of Working Drawings, New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1894.
1913 Published Earth Work Haul and Overhaul Including Economic Distribution, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1913.
1915 Published Engineering Economics First Principles, New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc., 1915 (Leading text for 20 years.).[1]
1962 Died in Santa Monica, California
Partial bibliography
- Earth Work Haul and Overhaul Including Economic Distribution (1913)
- Engineering Economics First Principles (1915) which was the leading text for the next 20 years.[1]
- The Engineering Profession (1941)
- The Engineering Method (1950)
See also
References
- ^ a b Thuesen, Gerald J. "ENGINEERING ECONOMY PIONEERS.5: 1. Accessed at peer.asee.org