Othmar Hermann Ammann, 1879-1965. His Way to Great Bridges

Authors

Urs C. Widmer
Heinz K. Meier

Keywords

Swiss American Historical Society, biography, Othmar Ammann

Abstract

In 1904, O. H. Ammann, aged 25, freshly graduated civil engineer of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, went to the United States encouraged by his former teacher in hydraulics, Professor Karl Emil Hilgard, who had himself worked as bridge engineer on the Northern Pacific Railway. More than anything else the young engineer wanted to widen his horizon and to gain some experience to follow-up his sound professional training, which he owed in part to Professor Wilhelm Ritter and to three years in the field in Switzerland and Germany. To his surprise he was immediately employed by Joseph Mayer's New York engineering firm at No. 1 Broadway.

Recommended Citation

Widmer, Urs C. and Meier, Heinz K. (1979) "Othmar Hermann Ammann, 1879-1965. His Way to Great Bridges," Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 15: Iss. 2, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol15/iss2/3