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Name: Othmar Herrmann Ammann
Years: 1879 - 1965
Title: Bridge Design Engineer
Major Achievements:

"The engineer and designer of numerous long suspension bridges, including the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge over New York harbour, at its completion (1965) the longest single span in the world."-- Encyclopćdia Britannica
Links:

  Britannica.com: Ammann, Othmar Herman

  Engines of Our Ingenuity No. 698

  structurae:Othmar Herrmann Ammann

  Britannica.com: Bridge Design

  Smithsonian Institution: Othmar Ammann's Glory

  Britannica.com: Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

  Structurae: Verrazano Narrows Bridge

  Verrazano Narrows Bridge

  Port Authority: George Washington Bridge

  NYCroads: George Washington Bridge

  Inventionfactory: Constructing the George Washington Bridge

  Britannica.com: George Washington Bridge

  Structurae: George Washington Bridge

  Port Authority: Bayonne Bridge

  NYCroads: Bayonne Bridge

  Structurae: Bayonne Bridge