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Amasa Stone & the Ashtabula Bridge Disaster
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Darius Salter
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Stephen J. Ressler, P.E., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, U.S. Military Academy at West Point –
The Ashtabula Bridge disaster was a horrific engineering failure that shocked late 19th century America. But was Amasa Stone’s innovative all-iron bridge “an experiment which ought never have been tried,” as the foreman of the Coroner’s Jury proclaimed? Or was it “an honest effort to improve the bridge practice of the country,” as an engineering investigator reported? In this meticulously researched book, Dr. Darius Salter delves deeply into these questions-and many other issues surrounding the disaster. Through this fascinating story, we can gain important insights about the role of human judgment in engineering and the inherent risk in technological innovation.
Nathan S. Clark, Jr., Conrail Executive & Logistics Professional focusing on railroad freight –
Dr. Salter has examined thoroughly that which Amasa Stone famously ‘got right’ and also infamously ‘got wrong’. His tragic error regarding the latter earned this great innovator a very dark place in history that will always cast a grim shadow beyond any and all of his many brilliant, positive contributions.
Leonard Brown, Producer & Director of PBS Documentary – “Engineering Tragedy: The Ashtabula Train Disaster –
If you really want a more complete, historically accurate, and scholarly look at this important story in American History, this book is for you. I would say it’s the perfect companion book to the documentary film. Yes, it’s true, the book always has more details than the movie.
Jim Stump, Retired Division Engineer of Conrail –
The “Ashtabula Bridge Disaster” is a thoroughly researched and well documented story of one of our nation’s sad tragedies of a bridge collapsing under a passenger train. Dr. Salter’s book is a gripping read and a riveting hard look at an industry’s failures.