Thomas Curtis Clarke
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| Born | September 16, 1827 Newton,Massachusetts |
| Died | June 15, 1901(aged 73) New York,New York |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Occupation(s) | Civil engineer, writer |
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Thomas Curtis Clarke(September 16, 1827 – June 15, 1901) was a railway engineer, builder andauthorbest known for a series ofcast ironbridges in theUnited States.While living and working inPort Hope, Ontario,his firm won the contract to build the east and west blocks of theCanadian Houses of Parliament.
Life
[edit]Clarke was born inNewton, Massachusettson September 16, 1827 and as a boy he attended the Boston Latin School. He enrolled atHarvard University,graduating in 1848 with aBachelor of Artsdegree in engineering, working under Captain John Child.[1][2]
In 1873, Clarke was elected as a member to theAmerican Philosophical Society.[3]
Thomas Curtis Clarke died in New York City on June 15, 1901, and is buried in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada.[1]
The world of today differs from that of Napoleon Bonaparte more than his world differed from that of Julius Caesar, and this change has chiefly been made by engineering.
— Thomas Curtis Clarke[4]
References
[edit]- ^ab"Thomas Curtis Clarke Dead".The New York Times.June 17, 1901. p. 14.RetrievedDecember 22,2021– via Newspapers.com.
- ^Frank Griggs Jr. (May 2008)."Thomas C. Clarke".STRUCTUREmag.Archived fromthe originalon June 9, 2011.
- ^"APS Member History".search.amphilsoc.org.RetrievedApril 30,2021.
- ^Alan Brown,"Thomas Curtis Clarke 1827-1901",Ontario's Historical Plaques
Further reading
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- Thomas Curtis Clarke et al.,The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management and Appliances,Charles Scribner's Sones, 1889
- "Who Was T.C. Clarke, C.E.",SSAC Bulletin,Vol. 17, No. 4, December 1992, Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (article by Jim Leonard; this research provided the impetus, in 1993, for the Ontario Heritage Trust to erect a "blue and gold" provincial heritage plaque in downtown Port Hope.)
