| 词条 | Canvass White |
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|image = Canvass White.jpg |image_size = |caption = |name = Canvass White |nationality = United States |birth_date = September 8, 1790 |birth_place = Whitestown, New York, United States |death_date = December 18, 1834 |death_place = St. Augustine, Florida, United States |education = |spouse = |parents = |children = |discipline = Civil engineer |institutions = |practice_name = |significant_projects = Erie Canal, Delaware and Raritan Canal |significant_design = |significant_advance = Rosendale cement |significant_awards = }} Canvass White (September 8, 1790 – December 18, 1834) was an American engineer and inventor. He was chief engineer at the Delaware and Raritan Canal and he patented Rosendale cement the dominant cement in the United States until 1900. Early life and familyWhite was born on September 8, 1790, in Whitestown, New York to Hugh White, Jr. (January 16, 1763 - April 7, 1827) and Tryphena Lawrence White (July 4, 1768 - March 30, 1800, a native of Canaan, Connecticut).[1][2] He received his education at the Fairfield Academy. EngineerWhite's first job as an engineer was on the Erie Canal in 1816, working for chief engineer Judge Benjamin Wright. In the autumn of 1817, he travelled to England to study their canal system. When he returned he patented a type of natural cement, Rosendale cement which was used to build some of the major works in the US including the Delaware and Hudson Canal and Brooklyn Bridge.[3] He continued his work in New York until 1824. From 1824 until the summer of 1826, he was Chief Engineer on the Union Canal in Pennsylvania. He was appointed Chief Engineer of the Delaware and Raritan Canal in 1825 and of the Lehigh Canal in 1827. He was also a consulting engineer for the Schuylkill Navigation Company and for the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. He became President of the Cohoes Company when it was incorporated on March 28, 1826. He was also highly involved in the design of the Croton Aqueduct though the position of chief engineer eventually went to John B. Jervis.[4] Of White, author Bill Bryson writes, "the great unsung Canvass White didn't just make New York rich; more profoundly, he helped make America."[5] WorksWorks of White's that survive include:
DeathWhite died in 1834 and was buried in Princeton Cemetery. See also{{Portal|Biography}}
References1. ^Oneida historical society, U. (1885). "The Whitestown country." 1784-1884. Utica, N.Y. 2. ^Hughes, T. P., and F. Munsell. "American ancestry, giving the name and descent in the male line, of Americans whose ancestors settled in the United States of America previous to the declaration of independence, AD. 1776 (Vol. VII).", page 30 Albany: Joel Munsell’s Sons (1892). Accessed{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} on June 15, 2016. 3. ^{{cite journal|last1=Werner|first1=Dietrich|last2=Burmeister|first2=Kurtis|title=An Overview of the History and Economic Geology of the Natural Cement Industry at Rosendale, Ulster County, New York|journal=Journal of ASTM International|date=2007|volume=4|issue=6|pages=100672|doi=10.1520/JAI100672|url=http://www.astm.org/DIGITAL_LIBRARY/JOURNALS/JAI/PAGES/JAI100672.htm|accessdate=24 October 2015}} 4. ^Howe, Dennis E. (2009). Industrial Archeology of a Rosendale Cement Works at Whiteport, Whiteport Press, p. . 5. ^Bryson, Bill At Home, Doubleday, London 2010, page 194 6. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{NRISref|version=2010a}} Sources"Canvass White, Esquire (1790-1834): Civil Engineer." (1983) Lists biographical information was obtained from the following sources: Charles B. Stuart, Lives and Works of Civil and Military Engineers in America (New York, 1871); William P. White, "Canvass White's Services" in Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Vol. 13 (Buffalo, 1909), 353:66; and the American Society of Civil Engineers, A Biographical Dictionary of American Civil Engineers (New York, 1972), 126-27. Further reading
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