Articles Tagged with ''archives''

This 1946 cover photo shows a stereoplanigraph, described as “one of the most universal and elaborate photomapping instruments ever constructed.”

One of the most notable reporting trips by an ENR editor took place in 1962 when ENR Editor-in-Chief Waldo G. Bowman attended the 29th Executive Meeting of the International Commission on Large Dams—held in Moscow—as a member of the U.S. delegation.

This cover photo shows Chinese engineers constructing a hand-made wooden bridge across the Tanai Hka River in Myanmar, then known as Burma.

During the 1950s and 60s, engineers and scientists sought ways to use nuclear weapons for major construction projects such as harbors, roads and even alternative routes for the Panama Canal.

This 1935 cover shows three workers in a sewer tunnel in Chicago that is being driven through blue clay.

In this selection of construction history from the ENR archives, a look at the successful rush to build in the middle of World War II what at the time was the world's largest office building.

The following article, published in ENR’s 100th anniversary issue (April 30, 1974) chronicles the magazine’s history during it’s first century.

During his first year as ENR editor-in-chief, Arthur J. Fox decided to have the magazine each year recognize the individuals who have made significant contributions to the construction industry.

The machine being pulled by a tractor on this 1937 cover is a then-newly developed rockpicker.

The article began, “As this is written, most ominous reports come from the Mississippi Valley.” This brief mention in the pages of ENR came as one of the greatest disasters in U.S. history was unfolding.