Word: modjeski
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great builder of bridges is Ralph Modjeski and honored last week with his sixth scientific medal. But, except for his own stubborn leaning to engineering and his fond mother's indulgence, he might have been a musician or actor. For his mother was the late great tragedienne Helena Modjeska, and he was her only son. He played in the green rooms of Europe while she enacted the rolling romantic tragedies of the 1860s and '70s. In 1876 personal tragedies forced her to go to raw California as a ranch developer. Almost forgotten became her husband, Gustav Modrzejewski...
Some of the engineering feats of the near future, according to Modjeski...
...greatest engineering feats of modern times, picked by Ralph Modjeski, famed Polish civil engineer, and son of Helena Modjeska, the tragedienne (Popular Science Monthly, June), include two canals, two bridges, and two dams...
...Modjeski was born in Poland in 1861. He has just been awarded one of the annual John Scott medals by the American Philosophical Society. He designed and built the Columbia and Willamette River bridges, Ore.; the McKinley bridge, St. Louis; was one of the associated engineers of the Quebec bridge; and is now chief engineer of the Delaware River bridge, Philadelphia, which will have the longest single span...