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A. Kempkey
Best known for an early 20th-century engineering paper on a concrete water tower, this author offers a clear window into the practical thinking behind public works of the era. The surviving record is slim, but the work itself has endured as a small piece of civil engineering history.
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About the author
A. Kempkey is credited as the author of Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910: A Concrete Water Tower, Paper No. 1173. In Project Gutenberg's edition of the work, the author is identified as A. Kempkey, Jr., and the paper discusses the design and construction of a concrete water tower in Victoria, British Columbia.
Reliable biographical information about Kempkey is limited in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to describe the author as an engineer writing within the professional civil engineering world of the early 1900s. The paper's continued availability through public-domain archives has helped preserve Kempkey's name for modern readers interested in infrastructure, engineering history, and technical writing from that period.
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