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John Howell Griffith

b. 1868

Best remembered for practical, technically minded writing, this early 20th-century engineer and researcher published work on foundations, soils, rocks, and the physical behavior of earth materials. His books and papers point to a career rooted in civil engineering and geologic investigation rather than literary fame.

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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910

by John Howell Griffith

About the author

John Howell Griffith, born in 1868, appears in library and public-domain records as an American engineering writer whose work focused on structural and earth-material problems. Project Gutenberg lists him as the author of The Ultimate Load on Pile Foundations in Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers (1910), showing his connection to professional civil-engineering research.

Later bibliographic records link him with Iowa State College publications such as Physical Properties of Earths (1931), Dynamics of Earth and Other Macroscopic Matter (1934), and Physical Properties of Typical American Rocks (1937). Taken together, these titles suggest a long career spent studying how soil, rock, and other large-scale materials behave under real-world conditions.

Very little easily confirmed biographical detail seems to survive online beyond his publication trail, so the clearest picture of Griffith comes through his work itself: careful, applied, and aimed at engineers, researchers, and students who needed dependable information about the materials beneath their feet.