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The father of prestressed concrete : oral history transcript : teaching engineers, bridging rivers and borders, 1931 to 1999
/ 2001.
BANC MSS 2002/50 c; Motion Picture 954 D; Phonotape 3220 C:1-27; BANC MSS 2002/50 c c.2; ...
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The father of prestressed concrete : oral history transcript: teaching engineers, bridging rivers and borders, 1931 to 1999 / 2001Creator/Contributor:
Lin, T. Y. (Tung Yen), 1912-2003, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Swent, Eleanor, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Gerwick, Ben C., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Ketchum, Mark Allen, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Lin, Margaret, 1918-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Lin and Guo family history in China; education at home, and at American Methodist School, Jiao Tong University, 1927-1931,
and UC Berkeley, 1931-1933; engineer, Chinese Ministry of Railways, 1933-1945; professor of engineering, UC Berkeley, since
1946; organizing 1957 world conference, promoting prestressed concrete technology; formation of T.Y. Lin companies, construction
of Caracas racetrack, Managua Bank of America, Moscone Center, Kuwait harbor, buildings in Puerto Rico, Kuala Lumpur, Phoenix;
building arch and cable bridges: Hegenberger, Idaho, Kwang Du, Rio Colorado, Twin Cities Mississippi River, Kwang Fu, I-205
at Portland, and others; bridges not built, Ruck-a-Chucky, Bering Strait, Gibraltar Strait; development of Pudong project,
Shanghai, 1980, and influencing Chinese leaders; comments on Buckminster Fuller, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ronald Reagan; critiques
of Bay Area bridges, thoughts on optimization. Includes supplementary interviews: wife Margaret Lin on life in wartime China,
life in America; colleagues Ben C. Gerwick, Jr., Mark Ketchum.
Lin reviews and comments on one hundred slides covering his personal life, roof structures, building structures, girder bridges,
arch bridges, cable bridges, strait crossings, and Shanghai Pudon development. The slides accompany the interview, conducted
September 11, 2000 by Eleanor Swent.
Date:
2001 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- a-cc---University of California, Berkeley. -- Dept. of Engineering -- Faculty
Moscone Convention Center (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Design and construction
China. -- Tie dao bu.
Civil engineers -- California -- Interviews
Prestressed concrete construction
Prestressed concrete
Arch bridges -- Design and construction
Cable-stayed bridges -- Design and construction
Pudong (Shanghai, China) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Note:
T.Y. Lin ; with an introduction by Alex C. Scordelis. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1999. Regional Oral History
Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Includes interviews with Margaret Lin, Ben C. Gerwick, Jr., and Mark Ketchum.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3220 C:1-27.
Also available online.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Volume includes index.
Type:
biographyOral histories.
Slides.
Physical Description:
print
1 v. (ix, 474 p., [12] leaves of plates) : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.
23 sound cassettes.
1 v. + 100 col. slides, 4 sound cassettes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z0w27
BANC MSS 2002/50 c
Motion Picture 954 D
Phonotape 3220 C:1-27
BANC MSS 2002/50 c c.2
BANC MSS 2002/50 c suppl. box 1
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.