Box 338

Scope and Contents 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,...