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Prologue
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———. “About Civil Engineering.” http://www.asce.org/about_civil_engineering.
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The Free Library. “The Testimony of William Hunter Dammond: The First African American Graduate of the University of Pittsburgh.” Journal of Pan African Studies (2007). https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+testimony+of+William+Hunter+Dammond%3a+the+first+African+American...-a0192353372.
Maier, Em. “225: Through Decades and Change Cathedral Endures, Develops.” Pitt News, October 12, 2012. https://pittnews.com/article/13284/archives/225-through-decades-and-change-cathedralendures-develops.
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Pennsylvania’s Borders
The American Society of Civil Engineers. “The Mason-Dixon Line National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, 1978.” http://www.asce.org/project/mason-dixon-line.
The Internet Archive. “Fitzherbert’s Book of Husbandry.” http://www.archive.org/details/bookofhusbandryOOfitzuoft.
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Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. “Pennsylvania Charter to William Penn—March 4, 1681” http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/documents/1681-1776/pennsylvania-charter.html.
Sipe, C. Hale. The Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania. Lewisburg, PA: Wennawoods Publishing, 1927.
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Whitman, Benjamin. Nelson’s Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Pennsylvania. Erie, PA: S.B. Nelson, 1896. The Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/nelsonsbiographi00whit.
Canals
Baumgardner, Mahlon J., and Floyd G. Hoenstine. The Allegheny Old Portage Railroad, 1834–1854: Building, Operation and Travel between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown Pennsylvania. N.p.: Pennsylvania Society Sons of the American Revolution, 1952.
Bornstein, Peter L. Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.
Corkan, A.M., AB. “The Beaver and Erie Canal.” Washington and Jefferson College, for Master of Arts in Graduate School of University of Pittsburgh. Available at Pennsylvania Department, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, qr 386.C81.
Harris, Robert. Canals and Their Architecture. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1969.
Jacobs, Harry A. The Juniata Canal and Old Portage Railroad. Hollidaysburg, PA: Blair County Historical Society, 1941. Reprint, 1969.
Johnson, George W. History of the Development of Transportation in Lawrence County. New Castle, PA, 1916.
Kapsch, Robert J. Over the Alleghenies: Early Canals and Railroads of Pennsylvania. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2013.
McCullough, Robert, and Walter Leuba. The Pennsylvania Main Line Canal. York, PA: American Canal and Transportation Center, 1973.
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Pennsylvania Main Line Canal, Juniata and Western Divisions. Special Study, National Park Service, 1993.
Roberts, Solomon W., Civil Engineer. Reminiscences of the First Railroad Over the Allegheny Mountain. N.p., 1878.
Shank, William H. The Amazing Pennsylvania Canals. York, PA: Historical Society of York County, 1965.
Sylvester Welch’s Report on the Allegheny Portage Railroad, 1833. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1988.
Railroads
Aitken, David W. The Little Saw Mill Run Railroad: Its Life and Legacy. Chicora, PA: Mechling Bookbindery and Bookbinders Workshop, 2017.
Herron, James T. “Canonsburg’s Prosperity Arrived by Railroad.” Jefferson College Times, March, 2000. Jefferson College Historical Society.
Oyler, John F. “The Beginnings of the Chartiers Valley Railroad.” Bridgeville Area Historical Society, February 16, 2017. http://www.bridgevillehistory.org/oyler-2017-02-16.html.
———. “The Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad.” Bridgeville Area Historical Society, April 17, 2017. http://www.bridgevillehistory.org/oyler-2017-04-17.html.
Schaeffer, Gene P. Montour Railroad. N.p.: Silver Brook Junction Publishing Company, 1996.
Walton, Walter F. “Pittsburgh Southern Railroad, West Virginia Aspirations that Came to Naught.” Three Rivers Narrow Gauge Historical Society, March 1990.
———. “The South Pennsylvania Railroad, or The Railroad that Might Have Been.” History and Heritage Committee, Pittsburgh Section, the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984.
Roads and Highways
Bigelow, Edward. “Let’s Learn from the Past.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 9, 2017. http://www.post-gazette.com/life/lifestyle/2009/07/16/Let-sLearn-From-the-Past-Edward-Bigelow/stories/200907160401.
Bridges and Tunnels of Allegheny County and Pittsburgh, PA. “Bigelow Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA.” http://pghbridges.com/articles/fieldnote_bigelowblvd.htm.
Brookline Connection. “The Boulevard of the Allies.” December 9, 2017. http://www.brooklineconnection.com/history/Facts/BlvdAllies.html.
Bruckart, Aaron T. “Tour Highlights History of Butler Plank Road.” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, November 15, 2007. http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_537946.html.
Dakelman, Mitchell E., and Neal A. Schorr. The Pennsylvania Turnpike. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2004.
Fort Necessity National Battlefield. “The National Road.” National Park Service. https://www.nps.gov/fone/learn/historyculture/nationalroad.htm.
Jones, Penelope R. The Story of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Mechanisburg, PA: Camelot Farms, 1950.
Lincoln Highway Association. “Lincoln Highway Info.” https://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/info.
Olmsted, Fredrick Law. Pittsburgh, Main Thoroughfares and the Down Town District. Report to the Pittsburgh Civil Commission, 1911.
Pennsylvania Highways. “I-79.” December 29, 2017. http://www.pahighways.com/interstates/I79.html.
———. “I-376.” December 29, 2017. http://www.pahighways.com/interstates/I376.html.
———. “I-279.” December 29, 2017. http://www.pahighways.com/interstates/I279.html.
———. “US 30.” http://www.pahighways.com/us/US30.html.
———. “US 22.” http://www.pahighways.com/us/US22.html.
Pittsburgh Art Places. http://www.pittsburghartplaces.org/accounts/view/290.
Preston, David L. Braddock’s Defeat. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Shank, William H., PE. Indian Trails to Super Highways. York, PA: American Canal & Transportation Center, 1988.
Verona Historical Society. “Stone Pylons.” December 9, 2017. http://www.veronahistory.org/stone-pylons.html.
Wallace, Paul A. Indian Paths of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1965.
Bridges
Baughn, James, et al. bridgehunter.com.
Cridlebaugh, Bruce. Bridges and Tunnels of Allegheny County and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. www.pghbridges.com.
DeLony, Eric. Landmark American Bridges. New York: American Society of Civil Engineers, Bullfinch Press, 1993.
Gangewere, Robert J. The Bridges of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 2001.
Gies, Joseph. Bridges and Men. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Universal Library, 1963.
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey. Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh.
Holth, Nathan, et al. historicbridges.org.
Hopkins, H.J. A Span of Bridges: An Illustrated History. United Kingdom: David & Charles, 1970.
Jackson, Donald C. Great American Bridges and Dams. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1988.
Kidney, Walter C. Pittsburgh’s Bridges Architecture and Engineering. Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1999.
Leech, Thomas, and Linda Kaplan. Bridges…Pittsburgh at the Point: A Journey through History. Tarentum, PA: Word Association Publishers, 2016.
Mack, Elizabeth B. The Architecture of Bridges. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1949.
Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs. Historic Highway Bridges in Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, PA, 1986.
White, Joseph. The Bridges of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. PA: Cramer Printing, 1928.
Wilson, Todd, and Helen Wilson. Images of America: Pittsburgh’s Bridges. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2015.
Public Transportation
Aupperlee, Aaron. “Former CMU Professor to Lead Uber Self-Driving Car Efforts in Pittsburgh.” TribLIVE, April 28, 2017. http://triblive.com/local/allegheny/12243801-74/former-cmu-professor-to-lead-uber-selfdriving-car-efforts-in-pittsburgh.
———. “Uber Users Can Get a Driverless Car in Pittsburgh.” TribLIVE, September 19, 2016. http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/11105274-74/uber-driving-self.
Birdsong, Shelly. “Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon Railroad.” Historic American Engineering Record, PA-410 (n.d.): 13–14.
Bowman, Lee. “Riders Bid Farewell to ‘Parkway Limited.’” Pittsburgh Press, November 14, 1981, sec. A.
GTECH Strategies. “Preserving a Piece of Pittsburgh’s Incline History.” October 24, 2016. https://gtechstrategies.org/preserving-piecepittsburghs-incline-history.
Johnstown Inclined Plane. “History.” June 18, 2017. https://www.inclinedplane.org/history.
Official Site of the Duquesne Incline. “About the Incline.” June 18, 2017. http://www.duquesneincline.org/index.php?page=about-the-incline.
Pennsylvania Transportation. Mansfield: Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1968.
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum. “Early Days & Formative Years.” November 21, 2013. https://pa-trolley.org/ptm-quick-history/early-days-formative-years.
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette. “On the Hill-Tops.” May 10, 1884.
Pittsburgh Highways. “Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway.” August 5, 2017. http://pittsburgh.pahighways.com/busways/ebusway.htm.
———. “South Busway.” August 5, 2017. http://pittsburgh.pahighways.com/busways/sbusway.html.
———. “West Busway/Wabash HOV Facility.” August 5, 2017. http://pittsburgh.pahighways.com/busways/wbusway.html.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “Celebrating City of Pittsburgh’s Firsts in Transportation.” January 14, 2018. http://www.post-gazette.com/local/south/2009/07/30/Celebrating-city-of-Pittsburgh-s-firsts-intransportation/stories/200907300244.
———. “History of the Overbrook Line.” August 20, 2017. http://old.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20000413TimeLine9.asp.
Pittsburgh Press. “Twentieth Century Progress Dooms Vehicle Incline Built Before Autos Replaced Hansoms and Victorias.” October 11, 1935.
Port Authority of Allegheny County. June 18, 2017. http://www.portauthority.org/paac/schedulesmaps/inclines.aspx.
Proceedings of the Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania 31 (1915): 932. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Regan, Bob, and Jeff Wingard. Pittsburgh Steps: The Story of the City’s Public Stairways. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot, 2015.
Springirth, Kenneth C. Pittsburgh Streamlined Trolleys. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
Wired. “How Pittsburgh Birthed the Age of the Self-Driving Car.” June 3, 2017. https://www.wired.com/2016/08/pittsburgh-birthed-age-self-driving-car.
Airports and Aviation
Butler, R.O. Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards. N.p.: Recorded Books Inc., Grove/Atlantic Inc., 2007.
Eversmeyer, M. Pittsburgh, 1900–1945. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2009.
Freeman, P., and T. Freeman. Abandoned and Little Known Airfields. http://www.airfields-freeman.com.
Kambic, T. “Bettis: The Field that Brought Airmail to Pittsburgh.” The Progress (July 1976).
Montanzez, V. “History Lesson: Amelia Earhart Crash Landing in Pittsburgh.” Pittsburgh Magazine (2015).
Ohara Township History. http://www.ohara.pa.us/history.asp.
OX5 Aviation Pioneers. “Pittsburgh Aviation History.” 2015. http://ox5.org/wp-content/uploads/PGH-B.pdf.
Oyler, J. Bridgeville Remembered. The Bridgeville Area Historical Society. http://bridgevillehistory.org.
Prevenslik, N. “Airport’s Past, Present, Future Detailed in Hardbound History.” TribLive, 2012. http://triblive.com/x/blairsvilledispatch/s_52256.html.
Trimble, W.F. High Frontier: A History of Aeronautics in Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982.
Drinking Water
Baldwin, Leland D. Pittsburgh: The Story of a City, 1750–1865. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1937.
The Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority. “PGH2O History.” http://www.pgh2o.com/history.
Report of the Filtration Commission of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. January 1899.
Wastewater
ALCOSAN. “About Us.” November 2017. www.alcosan.org.
———. “Wet Weather Plan” (draft), July 2012.
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Infrastructure Report Card, 2017.
———. Report Card for Pennsylvania’s Infrastructure, 2014.
Anthony, M. “From Pork House to Project Z: An Early History of the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority.” Pittsburgh Engineer Magazine (Winter 2013).
City of Allegheny. Report of the City Engineer to the Sewerage Commission on a Proper System of Sewers for the City of Allegheny. Pittsburgh, PA: printed by Order of Councils by W.G. Johnson & Company, 1869.
Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority (PWSA). “The Green First Plan: A City-Wide Green Infrastructure Assessment” (draft). Pittsburgh, PA, 2016.
———. “History.” November 2017. www.pgh2o.com/history.
Shamsi, U.M. “Green First Approach for Wet Weather Programs.” Journal of Water Management Modeling (2017). https://www.chijournal.org.
3RWW. “History.” November 2017. www.3riverswetweather.org.
Weisberg, D. “Taming the Water.” Public Source, November 2, 2011. www.publicsource.org.
Navigation and Flood Control on the Three Rivers
Edwardo, H., W. Karaffa and B.H. Greene. “First Floating Dam.” Military Engineer, no. 617 (2002): 61–62.
Johnson, L.R. The Davis Island Lock and Dam, 1870–1922. Prepared for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1985.
———. The Headwaters District: A History of the Pittsburgh District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Prepared for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1978.
Robinson, M.C. History of Navigation in the Ohio River Basin. National Waterways Study, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Support Center, Institute of Water Resources, 1983.
USACE Upper Ohio Navigation Study, Pennsylvania: Final Feasibility Report and Integrated Environmental Impact Statement. October 2014, revised October 2016.
Buildings
Brown, Mark McCullough. “The Cathedral of Learning: Concept, Design, and Construction.” Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh, 1987.
Fedele, John. “The Cathedral of Learning: A History.” Pitt Chronicle, March 12, 2007.
Hatch, Sybil E., and Tyler S. Sprague. We Had to Be Dreamers. Seattle, WA: Magnusson Klemencic Associates Inc., 2016.
Helvenston, H. Rey. “Retractable Dome for Pittsburgh’s Auditorium.” American Society of Civil Engineers (June 1961).
Van Trump, James D., and Arthur P. Ziegler. Landmark Architecture of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, 1967.
Weingardt, Richard G. “Circles in the Sky: The Life and Times of George Ferris.” American Society of Civil Engineers (2009).
———. “Homer Gage Balcom and the Empire State Building.” American Society of Civil Engineers (April 2011).
Epilogue
Carnegie Mellon University. “Research at CEE.” https://www.cmu.edu/cee/research/index.html.
Diverging Diamond Interchange. “History.” https://divergingdiamond.com/history.
Swanson School of Engineering—CEE Faculty Research Areas. http://www.engineering.pitt.edu/Departments/Civil-Environmental/_Content/Research/CEE-Faculty-Research-Areas.