This 1930 cover image depicts a group of four barge-mounted derricks using 100-ft-long booms to carefully place an assembly of pipes in a trench at the bottom of the Harlem River, which separates the northern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City from Bronx County.
Charles Whiting Baker, chief editor of Engineering News, was vacationing in Vermont in August 1907 when word reached him that the Quebec Bridge, under construction near Quebec City across the border in Canada, had collapsed.
This 1926 cover shows a wooden stave pipe under construction in northern California. The 16-ft-dia, 1,318-ft-long conduit connected two concrete-lined tunnels at a hydroelectric plant on the Klamath River.
Engineering News in its early years was more of a civil engineering journal than its later incarnations (including Engineering News-Record), with numerous articles contributed by engineers.
This 1919 cover shows dozens of workers erecting wooden forms for various concrete pours for segments of Dry Dock No. 4 at the Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia.
This 1927 cover depicts the tallest timber bridge in the world. Standing 204.5 ft high and 893 ft long, it was part of a rail line that hauled logs for the Pacific States Lumber Co. from its mill at Selleck, Wash., to Tacoma.
