Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.latimes.metro From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Elmer K. Timby; Engineer Worked on Golden Gate Bridge Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 09:20:14 EST Message-ID: HEADLINE: Elmer K. Timby; Engineer Worked on Golden Gate Bridge Publication Date: Friday November 6, 1992 BYLINE: Elmer K. Timby, 86, an engineer whose projects included the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge in New York. Timby, an engineering professor at Princeton University until his retirement in 1949, also helped construct and design the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the New Jersey and West Virginia turnpikes, the Delaware Memorial Bridge, Miami International Airport, and the Hampton Roads Tunnel-Bridge Highway Crossing linking Virginia and Maryland. As a naval officer during World War II, he helped design floating dry-docks that were so huge they had to be turned on their sides to go through the Panama Canal. In Langhorne, Pa., Oct. 28 of pneumonia. This article is copyright 1992 The Los Angeles Times Home Edition. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM