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Frank Edward Hermanns , RANK EDWARD HERMANNS, B. S., vsas born on une 29, 1878, in St. Charles, Mo., where his father, Edward Frank Hermanns,was Superintendent of Schools. Before he was of school age, his parents moved to Kansas City, Mo., where Professor Hermanns completed his grammar-school education. Then the family moved to Denver, Col., where he attended the high school. From high school he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where, in 1899, he was graduated in civil engineering. as-ea ?-Q THEMNKMQ. ' J The manner in which Professor Hermanns grew up with the ambition of becoming a bridge engineer is indeed unique. Spending part of his boyhood in St. Charles, he was able to watch the construction of one of the earliest and most important bridges across the Missouri River. When the St. Charles Bridge was built, the present accepted theories under- lying bridge design had not been developed, and the successful construction of a large bridge was considered quite an engineering triumph. Upon completion, the bridge was tested, in accordance with the custom of that day, by running a solid string of locomotives over it. One span collapsed under this test and was promptly replaced. A few years later, another span fell under an ordinary freight train. These two failures attracted a great deal of attention throughout the country, and naturally resulted in the development of considerable interest in the art of bridge-engineering on the part of the local residents. Mr. Hermanns, Sr., was much impressed by the apparent need at that time of development in the science, and decided that it would be a desirable line for his son to follow. Thus, Professor Hermanns, when still a schoolboy, was made to realize that some day he would be an engineer and be called upon to make use of the engineering training which his father had laid out for him. After his graduation from college, Professor Hermanns worked for two and one half years in the drawing room of the Phoenix Bridge Company at Phoenixville, Pa. The work was connected with the details of structural steel work, and following this, Professor Hermanns spent a year in the bridge department of the Chicago, Milwaukee 8x St. Paul Railway, designing bridges. Possessing a zealous desire for practical as well as theoretical knowledge of construction work, he started in with the Chicago Sz VVestern Indiana Railroad as Assistant Engineer on their track-elevation work. This work comprised the raising, under traflic, of the grades of many miles of tracks, over which six trunk lines entered the Dearborn Street Station of Chicago. The task included the construc- tioraiof roads and subways under the track beds for the convenience of vehicular tra c. In 1905, Professor Hermanns entered the railroad department of G. White 8: Company of New York. Later, he was sent to North Carolina to take charge of some railroad construction work The panic of 1907 put an end to that work, when the prospect of employment on construction work in this country seemed far from promising At this time Professor Hermanns took advantage of an offer to go to China as Professor of Railroad Engineering at the Imperial Peiyang University at Tientsen, I WW' ffi - . ,u l - 1 u 8 , efbebes,-? ' Y QQALQZQQ --1- l .txt
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