Engineered Irony by David W Jackson

Engineered Irony by David W Jackson

Engineered Irony, a 150th commemorative edition, revisits civil engineers Octave Chanute and George Morison's greatest achievement to 1869-the completion of the Hannibal Bridge-and their 1870 report, The Kansas City Bridge.
Kansas City, Missouri, has enjoyed its Heart of America moniker for generations. The Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, after years of negotiations and political machinations, chose in 1867 to span their historic bridge-the first ever to cross the Missouri River-at Kansas City, then known as the City of Kansas and formerly the Town of Kansas. The Hannibal Bridge MADE Kansas City, Missouri
Vol. 1 (blue front cover) is a reprint of Chanute and Morison's 1870 report on the construction of the bridge, together with a newly developed biography of Chanute by Bill Nicks, and an essay on the importance of the bridge to civil engineering by engineer Brian Snyder.
Vol. 2 (red front cover) is the culmination of David W. Jackson's decade plus effort to compile this sesquicentennial souvenir highlighting archival resources identifying nearly 1,500 individual skilled laborers and contractors-including five who lost their lives in the venture-who achieved a modern miracle between 1867 and July 3, 1869. During that Independence Day weekend fete, 30,000 spectators from across the Midwest descended upon the fledgling City of Kansas to celebrate the remarkable moment on the Missouri Riverbank. Another feature of Engineered Irony is a comprehensive gallery of all the known images of the Kansas City Bridge (aka. the Hannibal Bridge) from 1867 to 1917, when the bridge was replaced by its descendant, the Second Hannibal Bridge. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index.

David W. Jackson is founder, director, archivist of The Orderly Pack Rat, a historical research, consulting and local history publishing house he founded in 1996. His childhood hobby of genealogy initiated at age 11 foreshadowed his future career. He was graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Historic Preservation-Archives Studies from Southeast Missouri State University in 1993. He served as an archivist at Unity Archives for Unity School of Christianity and as Director of Archives and Education for the Jackson County (Mo.) Historical Society for 20 years before retiring in 2014. In addition to contributing numerous feature articles to newspapers and periodicals, Jackson has also served as editor for several serials. His earliest editorship was in the mid-1990s for an LGBTQIA-related organizational newsletter titled, Free to Be, for an affinity group by the same title at the Unity Church of Overland Park, Kansas. In the late 1990s, Jackson became editor of an online e-zine, Authenticity.org, for the National Institute for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Education. Jackson has also authored, co-authored, and/or edited numerous local history-related books and other products, as highlighted at orderlypackrat.com. Jackson co-founded the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America (GLAMA) on World AIDS Day in 2009, and his first edition of Changing Times: Almanac and Digest of Kansas City's Gay and Lesbian History was released in 2011.

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ISBN 13	9781734368642
ISBN 10	1734368640
Title	Engineered Irony
Author	David W Jackson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orderly Pack Rat the
Year published	2021-07-04
Number of pages	228
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