Talk:Herman Haupt

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Why has someone inserted a ^{[citation needed]} into the article? I had placed New International Encyclopedia at the same location in the article! In other words, I identified the source of the information. People are "citation needed" maniacs. Velocicaptor 13:54, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

And I expect you will see more of the maniacs out loose. When we have an article that has References (and even more so when it has a number of in-line citations or footnotes), it is the responsibility of the editors of the article to ensure that all facts and claims in the article can be substantiated in the References. When someone asks for a citation, you need to respond with the page numbers in a book or a specific URL to the information. A URL that points to a Wikipedia article about a book is insufficient. I admit that this seems a little onerous and that if you had written the article yourself and had listed that Encyclopedia as one of the References, probably no one would have said anything. But since I wrote the article and wish to stand by its references, I am asking you to take the extra step. Thanks. Hal Jespersen 14:21, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

HAUPT, Herman (1817-1905), An American engineer, born in Philadelphia, Pa. He graduated at West Point in 1855, (sic) but in the same year resigned a commission in the Second Infantry to become an assistant engineer on the public works of Pennsylvania. In 1844 he became professor of civil engineering and mathematics in Pennsylvania College, but three years later he resumed the practice of his profession, as principal consulting engineer of the Philadelphia Railroad, of which he became successively the general superintendent and chief engineer. He was chief engineer of the Hoosac Tunnel from 1856 to 1861. In the Civil War he was chief of the United States Bureau of Military Railroads and served on the staff of General McDowell with the rank of colonel. From 1872 to 1876 he was general manager of the Piedmont Air-Line Railroad, from 1876 to 1878 was chief engineer of the Pennsylvania Transportation Company and Seaboard Pipeline, from 1881 to 1885 was general manager, and 1885 to 1886 was general superintendent of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He invented a drilling machine that won the highest prize of the Royal Polytechnic Society of Great Britain and was the first to prove the practicability of transporting oil in pipes. He wrote: Hints on Bridge Building (1840); General Theory of Bridge Construction (1852; new ed., 1879); A Consideration of the Plans Proposed for the Improvement of the Ohio River (1855); Military Bridges (1864). Consult his Reminiscences (1902).

That paragraph is his biography which is in volume #10 of New International Encyclopedia. The statement that he graduated from West Point in1855 is probably a typo since he was a professor in Pennsylvania College in 1844. I like to avoid talk pages due to the controversies that pollute them. Accordingly, I am moving on. Velocicaptor 17:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)