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Technology and Industrial Archaeology at West Virginia University, where he also served as a chair and professor of civil engineering and a professor of history. This collection of essays encompasses over fifty years of his research in the field of the history of technology.
Within these twelve essays, Kemp describes and analyzes nineteenth century improvements in building materials such as iron, steel, and cement; roads and bridges, especially the evolution of the suspension bridge; canals and navigable rivers, including the Ohio River and its tributaries; and water supply systems. As one of the few practicing American engineers who also researches and writes as an academic, Kemp adds an important historical context to his work by focusing not only on the construction of a structure but also on the analytical science that heralds a structure’s design and development.
The 1859 Wheeling Custom House: A Harbinger of Iron and Steel Skeletal Framing
Charles Ellet Jr. (1810–1862): Portrait of an Engineer
A Thoroughfare Through the Howling Wilderness: The Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike
The Pulaski Skyway—Railway Economic Theory Applied to Superhighway Design
James Finley and the Origins of the Modern Suspension Bridge
French Movable Dams in America
Building the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
Benjamin Franklin Thomas and the Introduction of the French Needle Dam into the United States
John Jervis and the Hydraulic Design of the Old Croton Aqueduct
The Muskingum Navigation
French Movable Dams on the Great Kanawha River
The Little Kanawha Navigation
Acknowledgments
About the Authors