Leon Solomon Moisseiff (November 10, 1872 – September 3, 1943) [1] was a leading suspension bridge engineer in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. He was awarded The Franklin …

Latvian native Leon Moisseiff arrived in the United States in 1891, at age 19. Five years later, after receiving a civil engineering degree, Moisseiff became an American citizen. He was so...

The lead designer of the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Leon Salomon Moisseiff, was at the peak of his engineering profession when the ill-fated span collapsed into the chilly waters of Puget …

2023年11月7日 · Leon Moisseiff, an American civil engineer, was born Nov. 10, 1872. Moisseiff was a Latvian Jew, born in Riga, who came to the United States with his parents in 1891, and …

Leon Solomon Moisseiff was born on 10 November 1872, in Riga, Riga, Latvia as the son of Solomon and Anna Bloch. He had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Ida Assinofsky. He lived …

Leon Solomon Moisseiff was an American bridge engineer. Leon Solomon Moisseiff was born in Riga, Latvia (then part of the Russian empire). He was the only child of Jewish parents, …

2019年12月25日 · So it was in 1929 that one engineering consultant on the Golden Gate Bridge, Leon Moisseiff, pushed a new bridge engineering theory — one at the forefront of his industry …

2015年10月31日 · Leon Moisseiff, right, a New York engineer and designer of the infamous Galloping Gertie stands alongside construction engineer Clark Eldridge on Nov. 14, 1940, to …

2013年9月7日 · Leon S. Moisseiff, 70, one of the world’s leading authorities on bridge construction, who came to this country in 1891 from Riga as a Jewish immigrant boy, was …

Engineer Leon Moisseiff had designed the ultimate in slender bridges. The roadway was a mere 39 feet -- only eight teenagers lying head to toe would fit across the bridge! Moisseiff...