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Test of a Flat Slab Floor of the Western Newspaper Union Building: -1918
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Arthur Newell Talbot was an American civil engineer.
Background
Talbot was born on October 21, 1857 at Cortland, Illinois. He was the oldest of four children of Charles A. Talbot, a farmer of modest means, and Harriet (Newell) Talbot. Both parents had come to Illinois in their youth: his father from London, England; his mother from Brockville, Ontario, Canada.
Education
His elementary education was in Cortland, and he attended high school in nearby Sycamore. He then entered Illinois Industrial University (the later University of Illinois) at Urbana, where he majored in civil engineering and achieved a reputation for both scholastic excellence and leadership in extracurricular activities. He graduated, B. S. , in 1881.
He received honorary doctorates from the universities of Pennsylvania (1915), Michigan (1916), and Illinois (1931).
Career
After graduating he worked in railroad location, construction, and maintenance in Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, and Idaho. Four years later he returned to the University of Illinois as assistant professor of engineering and mathematics. He was promoted in 1890 to professor of municipal and sanitary engineering and held this position until his retirement in 1926.
Although Talbot considered teaching his most important role, his work as a pioneer in applied scientific research established his reputation nationally. Two of his earliest contributions were formulas for computing the rates of maximum rainfall and the size of waterways for bridge and culvert design. In 1899 he published The Railway Transition Spiral, which went through numerous editions and became a basic treatise for laying out easement curves. His interest in practical municipal problems such as the design of septic tanks and the standardization of paving brick led to the establishment of a center for laboratory research and the consequent founding (1903) and administration of the Engineering Experiment Station at the University of Illinois.
Talbot was one of the most distinguished members of the Joint Committee on Concrete and Reinforced Concrete of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society for Testing Materials, to which he was appointed in 1904 (and whose subcommittee on design he headed until 1909). The committee's twelve-year investigation into the properties of reinforced concrete and its use in beams, slabs, columns, footings, pipes, frames, and buildings has formed one of the major foundations of the modern construction industry.
Talbot also made extensive studies of the construction, mode of action, and resistances of railroad rails, ties, ballast, and roadbed under different loads traveling at varying speeds. Begun in 1914 under the sponsorship of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Railway Engineering Association, these studies continued for nearly three decades. Talbot's report (American Railway Engineering Association, Bulletin, August 1933) helped modify the design of rolling stock and right-of-way construction and is considered one of the earliest reliable contributions to the scientific understanding of safe, high-speed transportation.
In 1942 he suffered a heart attack while attending a convention of the American Railway Engineering Association in Chicago and died in a Chicago hospital at the age of eighty-four.
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Religion
Talbot's religious affiliation was with the Congregational Church.
Membership
He was a member of the Joint Committee on Concrete and Reinforced Concrete of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society for Testing Materials.
A believer in professional association as a "powerful engine in technical affairs, " Talbot served in administrative capacities in many engineering societies. He was president (1890 - 91) of the Illinois Society of Engineers (which he had helped found four years earlier), of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (1910 - 11), of the American Society for Testing Materials (1913 - 14), and of the American Society of Civil Engineers (1918), and vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1928).
Personality
His coworkers in research found him precise and often argumentative; his professional colleagues enjoyed his wry sense of humor.
Connections
Talbot married Virginia Mann Hammet in Camargo, Illinois on June 7, 1886. They had 4 children together.