Name Thomas Clarke Died June 15, 1901 | Education Harvard University | |
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Thomas Curtis Clarke (16 September 1827 – 15 June 1901) was a railway engineer, builder and author best known for a series of cast iron bridges in the United States. While living and working in Port Hope, Ontario, his firm won the contract to build the east and west blocks of the Canadian Houses of Parliament. Thomas Curtis Clarke is buried in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada.
"The world of today differs from that of Napoleon Bonaparte more than his world differed from that of Julius Caesar, and this change has chiefly been made by engineering.
Early work
Clarke was born in Newton, Massachusetts on 16 September 1827 and as a boy he attended the Boston Latin School. He enrolled at Harvard University, graduating in 1848 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in engineering, working under Captain John Child.