Graphics for engineers, architects, and builders; a manual for designers, and a text-book for technical schools. Trusses and arches analyzed and ... in three parts, part I. - Roof-trusses
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Graphics for Engineers, Architects, and Builders: A Manual for Designers, and a Text-Book for Scientific Schools. Trusses and Arches Analyzed and ... in Three Parts, Part II: Bridge-Trusses
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Notes on Rankine's Civil engineering, part II, for the use of engineering students University of Michigan
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The Action of Materials Under Stress; Or, Structural Mechanics; Comprising the Strength and Resistance of Materials and Elements of Structural Design, with Examples and Problems
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Charles Ezra Greene was an American civil engineer and educator.
Background
Charles Ezra Greene was born on February 12, 1842 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father, Rev. James Diman Greene, was a descendant of James Greene, admitted a freeman of Malden, Massachusetts, in 1647 i his mother, Sarah Adeline, was the sister of Edward Henry Durell and the daughter of Daniel Meserve Durell, chief justice of the New Hampshire court of common pleas.
Education
After attending the Cambridge High School and Phillips Exeter Academy, Charles entered Harvard, graduating with the degree of A. B. in 1862.
Resigning his commission in August 1866, he studied civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 1868 received the degree of B. S.
Career
Following a period of employment in rifle factories at Millbury and Worcester, Massachusetts, he served some nine months as a clerk in the quartermaster’s department, Readville, Massachusetts, and on January 5, 1865, was commissioned first lieutenant and appointed quartermaster of the 7th Regiment of colored troops, with which he saw service in Virginia and Texas.
After practical experience in his profession as assistant engineer on the Bangor & Piscataquis Railroad, as assistant engineer on federal river and harbor improvement projects in Maine and New Hampshire, and as a member of the firm of Greene & Danforth of Portland, he was appointed city engineer of Bangor, Maine.
In October 1872 he was elected to the chair of civil engineering at the University of Michigan. From this time until his death his home was at Ann Arbor. In 1895-96 the College of Engineering was made an independent department, and Greene became its first dean. In addition to his university work, he continued to practise as a consulting engineer.
In 1879-81 he was chief engineer of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Railway; in 1881-82, in charge of construction of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad bridge at Toledo, and the following year, consulting engineer for the Cherry Street bridge there. He designed and superintended the construction of the Ann Arbor Water Works in 1885, and the following year designed the water-works for Pontiac and Ypsilanti. In 1890 he planned the sewer system of Ann Arbor. He was consultant from time to time on the Washington Monument and Congressional Library projects, of which his cousin Bernard Greene was engineer in charge.
He was vice-president of the Farmers and Mechanics’ Bank of Ann Arbor for some years, and a director in other local companies. In his first professional publication, a pamphlet issued in 1873, Greene sought to apply graphical methods of analysis to the problems of roof trusses.
The value of the graphical methods of solution had not yet been recognized by the profession, and the paper, first prepared as a thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had been rejected by the faculty of that institution. Nevertheless, throughout his career Greene continued to develop graphic methods as applied to structural frames, bridges, and arches, and ultimately had the satisfaction of seeing his theories adopted and his works acknowledged as authorities in their field.
He was an associate editor of Engineering News in 1876-77 and published numerous papers in that journal. His Graphics for Engineers, Architects, and Builders, with the sub-title, Trusses and Arches, was issued in three parts, “Roof Trusses”, “Bridge Trusses”, and “Arches”, andis his most notable work. The last two parts set forth an original method of graphical analysis which had been widely used.
In 1891 he published Notes on Rankine’s Civil Engineering, Part II, and in 1897 his last book, The Action of Materials Under Stress, or, Structural Mechanics. As a teacher, Greene “sought to convince, to reach the reasoning faculty, and to train the judgment rather than the memory”; notable for his power of clear elucidation, “he would get an idea from his mind into the minds of his hearers with just the accuracy with which he would throw an actual bridge across an actual chasm”. As dean, he displayed both kindliness and executive ability. During his administration the Engineering College grew rapidly and was brought to a position of high rank among technical institutions.
He died suddenly, at Ann Arbor, in his sixty-second year, survived by his wife, a son, and a daughter.