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A. Kempkey

Best known for an early 20th-century engineering paper on a concrete water tower, this writer documented practical ideas at a time when modern infrastructure was rapidly changing. The surviving record points to a working engineer whose published work reflects hands-on experience rather than a large literary career.

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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 A Concrete Water Tower, Paper No. 1173

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 A Concrete Water Tower, Paper No. 1173

by A. Kempkey

About the author

Published as A. Kempkey, Jr., he is associated with A Concrete Water Tower, Paper No. 1173, which appeared in the Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers in December 1910. Modern library and ebook records consistently connect that work with the name A. Kempkey.

Archival records for Augustus Kempkey describe him as a consulting civil engineer and preserve engineering and economic reports dating from 1915 to 1955. Taken together, these sources strongly suggest that the author behind the 1910 paper was an engineer working in water and construction projects, writing from professional practice.

Little easy-to-confirm biographical detail appears in the sources I found beyond his engineering career, so it is best to remember him through the work itself: a detailed technical account from an era when concrete construction and public utility systems were expanding quickly.