Homer M. Hadley — Seattle, WA
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Dunbar Loop
N 47° 35.426 W 122° 17.340
10T E 553455 N 5271024
Homer M. Hadley conceived of a floating bridge to cross Lake Washington. During the 1940s this bridge was completed and became the first of it's kind in the world.
Waymark Code: WMRHPM
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 06/23/2016
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Engineer Homer M. Hadley designed several unique concrete bridges throughout the state of Washington during his lifetime, including many early American applications of the European innovation of concrete hollow-box, or cellular construction. This economical method of construction was used extensively throughout Europe, but was not widely used in the United States until the 1940s and 1950s. It was Hadley who originally conceived the design of a floating bridge across Lake Washington, the large lake that separates Seattle from Bellevue and Kirkland (the Eastside). He visualized a floating roadway made up of a series of hollow concrete barges. Homer Hadley's unusual work reveals the effects of a single innovative engineer on bridge design within the state.

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