Hugh Lincoln Cooper (April 28, 1865[1]–June 24, 1937[2]) was an American colonel and civil engineer, known for construction supervision of a number of hydroelectric power plants.
Biography edit
Born in Houston County in Sheldon, Minnesota, Cooper was a self-educated civil engineer. He worked throughout the United States, Canada, Brazil, Egypt, and Soviet Union. During World War I he served as a supervising engineer in the US Army Corps of Engineers.[3]
Cooper died in Stamford, Connecticut in 1937.[2]
Supervised constructions edit
- Toronto Power Generating Station, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (1906)
- Keokuk Dam, Hamilton, Illinois and Keokuk, Iowa (1910-1913)
- Wilson Dam, Shoals Shore, Alabama (1918-1924)
- Lake Zumbro Hydroelectric Generating Plant, Mazeppa, Minnesota (1919)
- Dniprohes, Soviet Union (now Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) (1927-1932) — upon completion of the project, Hugh Cooper was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour
References edit
- ^ "Subjects of Biographies". Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. Comprehensive Index. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1990.
- ^ a b Hugh L. Cooper, builder of dam at Shoals, dies. Times Daily – June 25, 1937.
- ^ Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hugh L. Cooper.
- Hugh Lincoln Cooper at the American Society of Civil Engineers website.
- M. Bourke-White, Image of Col. Hugh L. Cooper supervising the building of the great dam across the Dineper River. Life Magazine, 1931.
- Hugh L. Cooper speaks to MIT civil engineers, January 1915.
- H. Dorn (1979). "Hugh Lincoln Cooper and the First Détente". Technology and Culture. 20 (2): 322–347. doi:10.2307/3103869.