Mount Thomson is a prominent 6,554-foot-elevation (1,998-meter) mountain summit in eastern King County of Washington state.
Mount Thomson
Mount Thomson in winter
Mount Thomson
Joe Lake, Mt. Thomson, Huckleberry Mountain (right). Camera pointed west.
Reginald Heber Thomson was a self-taught American civil engineer. He worked in Washington state, mainly in Seattle, where he became city engineer in 1892 and held the position for two decades. Alan J. Stein wrote that Thomson "probably did more than any other individual to change the face of Seattle" and was responsible for "virtually all of Seattle's infrastructure".
The Denny Regrade under way in 1907
Laying the Cedar River pipeline
Diablo Dam, pictured here in 2010.