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Anton Tedesko
Anton Tedesko
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Anton was born of Viennese parents on May 25, 1903, in Germany, and grew up and was eclucated in Austria. He spent his early years in Vienna, went to high school in Graz Wiener Neustadt, and pursued academic studies at the Institute of Technology in Vienna, where he had superb teachers.
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Twenty years later, under Professor Melan, he wrote a dissertation on his experiences with strain gages placed inside full-scale long-span concrete structures, which was the basis for his science doctorate. In 1930 Tedesko joined Dyckerhoff and Widmann, engineers and constructors known as outstanding builders of dams, bridges, and tunnels, who pioneered reinforced concrete.
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his Roberts and Schaefer team worked on underground launch control center domes for the ballistic missile division of the Air Force. This led to his involvement in the development of concepts and criteria for ground instalIations pertaining to large rockets.
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The project received the 1966 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Anton spoke in glowing terms of his first experience at an Apollo moon launch, the miraculous lift-off, the enormous sound, and the flames.
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Boase Award in recognition of his pioneering work en cl his achievements in the field of shell structures. The American Society of Civil Engineers, the Arnerican Concrete Institute, and the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures macle him an honorary member.
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