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Bertram Henry Majendie Hewett
Best known for writing about the bold underground engineering of the early 20th century, this British civil engineer combined hands-on tunnel work with clear technical explanation. His books and papers give a close-up view of the methods behind major rail and tunnel projects.
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The North River Tunnels. Paper No. 1155
by Bertram Henry Majendie Hewett, W. L. Brown
About the author
Born in 1874 and dying in 1933, he was a British civil engineer whose career was closely tied to large tunneling works. Contemporary reference material notes that he was engineer-in-charge of works connected with the construction of the Mersey Tunnel from 1925, and later became its manager when the tunnel opened.
He also wrote technical works that carried his practical experience into print. He co-authored Shield and Compressed Air Tunneling with Sigvald Johannesson in 1922, and his name also appears on a paper in the Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers about the North River Tunnels for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Although he is not widely known today outside engineering history, his surviving work has lasting value for readers interested in how ambitious underground infrastructure was planned and built in the age of early modern tunneling.