Background
Webb, Walter Loring was born on June 25, 1863 in Rye, New York, United States. Son of Edward Dexter and Emily (Loder) Webb.
Webb, Walter Loring was born on June 25, 1863 in Rye, New York, United States. Son of Edward Dexter and Emily (Loder) Webb.
Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Cornell Univercity, 1884, Civil Engineer, 1889.
Instructor civil engineering, Cornell, 1888-1892. Assistant professor civil engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1893-1901. Construction engineering, since 1901.
Author: Shades, Shadow and Perspective.
Problems in the Use and Adjustment of Engineering Instruments, 1907. Railroad Construction, 1931.
Economics of Railroad Construction, 1912, translation into the Russian, 1921. Contributor section 3 (railroads) to American Civil Engineers’ Pocket Book.
Also contributor to engineering and scientific periodicals.
Major of engineers, United States of America, 1917-1920, in France as chief engineer of renting requisitions and claims service, in charge of valuations.
Mason.
Married Mary Tremaine Hubbard, September 1, 1886.