Leffert Lefferts Buck was an American civil engineer and a pioneer in the use of steel arch bridge structures.
Leffert L. Buck at the age of 50
Williamsburg Bridge in 3D, in about 1905
Pont De Rennes
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut, closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer and Amos Eaton for the "application of science to the common purposes of life" and is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere.
Stephen van Rensselaer, founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Engraving of RPI in 1876
Russell Sage Laboratory
West Hall