Michel Cotte and French Industrial Heritage, 1993-1999 (includes facsimiles)

French historian of civil engineering Michel Cotte presented a paper on suspension bridges at the 1999 International Conference on Historic Bridges to Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, which Kemp and the IHTIA organized. He and Kemp also corresponded about the history of French moveable dams, which helped Kemp in his research about locks and dams along the Great Kanawha River. The box includes correspondence, engineering drawings, scholarly journal articles, drafts of scholarly journal articles, and conference booklets. The box also includes facsimiles book excerpts. Subjects include the Tournon-Tain Suspension Bridge in Tournon-sur-Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; the Rhône River in France; the Kanawha River in West Virginia; Marc Seguin; French moveable dams; suspension bridges; and French industrial heritage.