Leffert Lefferts Buck

American engineer.

Biographical Information

Name:	Leffert Lefferts Buck
Born on	5 February 1837 in Canton, Saint Lawrence County, New York, USA, North America
Deceased on	17 July 1909 in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, USA, North America
1868	Graduates from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1877 - 1886	Oversees the rebuilding of Roeblings Niagara River Bridge
1895 - 1903	Chief engineer on the Williamsburg Bridge

Participation in the following structures & large-scale projects:

chief engineer

designer

resident engineer

Buck, Leffert L. (1881): The Re-enforcement fo the Anchorage and Renewal of Suspended Superstructure of Niagara Railroad Suspension Bridge. In: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, n. 10 ( 1881), pp. 195-224.
Buck, Leffert L. (1894): A Few Remarks on the Niagara Gorge. In: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, n. 32 ( 1894), pp. 205-8, 208-13.

Petroski, Henry (1995): Engineers of Dreams. Great Bridge Builders and The Spanning of America. Vintage Books, New York (USA), pp. 158-161.
Griggs Jr., Francis E. (2000): Leffert Lefferts Buck -- Bridge Maker. In: Journal of Bridge Engineering (ASCE), v. 5, n. 4 (November 2000), pp. 271-283.
https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)1084-0702(2000)5:4(271)
Leffert Lefferts Buck, 1837-1909. In: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, v. 178, n. 1909-4 ( 1909), pp. 367.
https://doi.org/10.1680/imotp.1909.17726