Abraham Burton Cohen

Abraham Burton Cohen
Abraham Burton Cohen
Born	9 March 1882; Chicago
Died	11 February 1956 (aged 73)
Alma mater	Purdue University;
Occupation	Civil engineer
Employer	Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad;
Works	Tunkhannock Viaduct

Abraham Burton Cohen (March 9, 1882 – February 11, 1956) was an American civil engineer notable for his role in designing innovative and record-breaking concrete bridges such as the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Tunkhannock Viaduct, the world's largest concrete structure when completed. Cohen was an active member of the American Concrete Institute and earned ACI's Wason Medal for Most Meritorious Paper in 1927.[1]

Hudson County Boulevard Bridge at Journal Square

Biography

Cohen was Jewish,[2] born in Chicago and died in East Orange, New Jersey. He earned a degree in civil engineering from Purdue University in 1905 and an honorary doctorate in 1949.[3] Cohen spent a majority of his career with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) before leaving in 1920 to form his own consulting practice in New York City. As a consulting engineer, he designed a number of concrete spans in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Binghamton, New York, and elsewhere. At least two of his works, the Tunkhannock Viaduct and Scranton's Harrison Avenue Bridge, are on the National Register of Historic Places.[4] He died on February 11, 1956.[3]

Selected projects

1908 Delaware River Viaduct on DL&W Lackawanna Cut-Off
1909 Paulinskill Viaduct on DL&W Lackawanna Cut-Off
1913 Tunkhannock Viaduct on DL&W Clarks Summit-Hallstead Cutoff
1916 DL&W track elevation in Orange and South Orange, New Jersey
1921 Harrison Avenue Bridge in Scranton, Pennsylvania
1924 Hudson County Boulevard at Journal Square, Jersey City, New Jersey
1946 Spruce Street Bridge repairs in Scranton, Pennsylvania

Bibliography

Cohen, A. B. (April 1914). "Progress and Development of Concrete Work on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad". ACI Journal Proceedings. 10 (4): 239–264. doi:10.14359/16088.
Cohen, A. B. (June 1918). "Reinforced-Concrete Flat-Slab Railway Bridges". ACI Journal Proceedings. 14 (6): 321–334. doi:10.14359/15805.
Cohen, A. Burton (February 1926). "Correlated Considerations in Design and Construction of Concrete Bridges". ACI Journal Proceedings. 22 (2): 560–610. doi:10.14359/15460.
Cohen, A. Burton (September 1935). "Supervision and Inspection of Concrete". ACI Journal Proceedings. 32 (9): 40–45. doi:10.14359/8367.
Cohen, A. Burton (November 1946). "Repairs to Spruce Street Bridge, Scranton, Pennsylvania". ACI Journal Proceedings. 43 (11): 241–248. doi:10.14359/8751.

References

"Wason Medal for Most Meritorious Paper". American Concrete Institute. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
Gershenfeld, Louis (1934). The Jew in Science. Jewish Publication Society of America. p. 199.
"A. B. Cohen Dies. Civil Engineer: Planner of Thruway Bridges Also Worked on Removal of Rail Grade Crossings". The New York Times. February 12, 1956. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
Spivey, Justin M. (August 1998). "Harrison Avenue Bridge (South-East Scranton Viaduct)" (PDF). Historic American Engineering Record. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. p. 1. Retrieved November 27, 2017.

External links

Abraham Burton Cohen at Structurae

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[1] "Wason Medal for Most Meritorious Paper". American Concrete Institute. Retrieved November 20, 2014.

[2] Gershenfeld, Louis (1934). The Jew in Science. Jewish Publication Society of America. p. 199.

[grade-3] "A. B. Cohen Dies. Civil Engineer: Planner of Thruway Bridges Also Worked on Removal of Rail Grade Crossings". The New York Times. February 12, 1956. Retrieved 2010-07-04.

[4] Spivey, Justin M. (August 1998). "Harrison Avenue Bridge (South-East Scranton Viaduct)" (PDF). Historic American Engineering Record. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. p. 1. Retrieved November 27, 2017.