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Henry C. Goldmark
Born (1857-06-15 ) June 15, 1857Died January 15, 1941(1941-01-15) (aged 83) Education Occupation Engineer Spouse
Mary Carter Tomkins
(
m. )
Children 2
Henry C. Goldmark (1857–1941) was an American engineer who designed and installed the
Panama Canal locks .
Biography
Henry Goldmark was born in
New York City on June 15, 1857.
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[2] He was an 1874 graduate of the
New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering .
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[7] He earned a bachelor's degree at
Harvard , and graduated from the
Royal Polytechnic University at Hanover,
German Empire in 1880.
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He married Mary Carter Tomkins on June 8, 1899, and they had two children.
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He died in
Nyack, New York on January 15, 1941, after being struck by an automobile the previous night.
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References
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The Makers of the Panama Canal .
F. E. jackson & Son . 1911. p. 34. Retrieved April 26, 2023 – via Google Books.
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Harvard College Class of 1878 Secretary's Report No. VI . Cambridge: The Riverside Press. 1908. p. 32. Retrieved April 26, 2023 – via Google Books.
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"Panama Canal History - Design of the Locks" . Pancanal.com. Archived from
the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2023 .
^ Hodges, H. F. (1916).
"General Design of the Locks, Dams and Regulating Works of the Panama Canal" . Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 . p. 3. Retrieved April 26, 2023 – via Google Books.
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"Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer" . 1917. Retrieved June 18, 2015 .
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"Manual on lock valves" (PDF) . Libraryweb.org. Retrieved June 18, 2015 .
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"ePoly Briefs Home" . Archive.poly.edu. Archived from
the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2015 .
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History of the Panama Canal. - Ira E. Bennett . 1915. p.
472 . Retrieved June 18, 2015 – via
Internet Archive . Panama Canal lock system designer henry.
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"Noted Engineer Dies" .
Asheville Citizen . Nyack, New York (published January 16, 1941). AP. January 15, 1941. Retrieved April 26, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.