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J. DONOVAN JACOBS
Pages 182-187

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... Gabriel Moulin Studio, San Francisco
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... EDGERTON SUBMITTED BY THE NAE HOME SECRETARY J OSEPH DONOVAN JACOBS, a leader and innovator in the underground construction industry, died August 26, 2000, at the age of 91. Born on Christmas Eve 1908 in the small town of Motley, Minnesota, Don was the son of a bank manager and former schoolteacher.
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From page 184...
... He also designed special equipment for a Jersey City shipyard of Walsh-Steers, which entailed building landing craft for the US Navy. In 1943 he was transferred to Cleveland to serve as district engineer for the construction of priority wartime bridges and docks.
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... Equipped with a semiautomatic track magazine that placed full-length haulage track at the rear of the floor on a well-compacted invert, the method simultaneously saved labor costs and provided better track. Don not only personally performed professional engineering services throughout the world but also served as a consultant or member of a consulting board to owner entities on an impressive variety of public works, such as the Oroville Dam, Berkeley Hills Tunnel, Crystal Springs Tunnel, and San Fernando Tunnel, all in California; Honolulu's Wilson Tunnel; Litani River Project, Lebanon; continued work on Australia's Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme; Seattle's Metropolitan Sewer Tunnels; Churchill Falls Hydroelectric Project, Labrador; Sea Level Canal Board, Panama; Arizona Power Commission; Libby Dam Railroad Tunnel, Montana; and City Water Tunnel Number Three, New York.
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... From a one-man consulting firm in 1955 it has grown to a well-respected and internationally known engineering and construction firm serving the sizable civil, underground, and water resources markets, with 22 offices in North America, Australia, and New Zealand. Don's legacy to the civil engineering community is the advancement of construction engineering in the difficult, uncertain geologic conditions inherent to underground construction.
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