Eric DeLony

Eric DeLony (1944–2018) served as chief of the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) from 1971 to 2003 and was a noted historic preservationist. He was a professional engineering and industrial heritage consultant with a particular interest in the preservation of historic bridges.^[1] He received the General Tools Award, the highest award of the Society for Industrial Archeology, in 2000.^[2][3]

DeLony graduated from the Ohio State University in 1968.

Publications

• DeLony, Eric (1996). "The Bollman Bridge at Savage, Maryland: Restoring America's Quintessential Metal Truss". APT Bulletin. 27 (1–2): 24–31. doi:10.2307/1504496. JSTOR 1504496.
• DeLony, Eric. "Bridging the Past for the Future". Pennsylvania Heritage (Spring 2000): 8–17.
• DeLony, Eric (5 July 2009). "The Destruction of Our Historic Metal Bridges Is the Destruction of Our Heritage". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
• DeLony, Eric (October 2001). "Documenting Historic Bridges". International Engineering History and Heritage: Improving Bridges to ASCE’s 150th Anniversary. Third National Congress on Civil Engineering History and Heritage. Reston, Virginia: American Society of Civil Engineers. pp. 239–251. ISBN 0-7844-0594-8.
• DeLony, Eric (Fall 1994). "The Golden Age of the Iron Bridge". Invention & Technology. 10 (2). Archived from the original on 2008-09-04. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
• DeLony, Eric (1998). "HABS/HAER at the Millennium: Advancing Architectural and Engineering Documentation". APT Bulletin. 29 (3–4): 31–35. doi:10.2307/1504609. JSTOR 1504609.
• DeLony, Eric (November 1993). Landmark American Bridges. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-8212-2036-8.
• DeLony, Eric (Summer 2005). "Save Our Span!". Invention & Technology. 21 (1). Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
• DeLony, Eric (Spring 2000). "Tom Paine's Bridge". Invention & Technology. 15 (4): 38–45. Archived from the original on 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
• DeLony, Eric (2004). "The Value of Old Bridges". APT Bulletin. 35 (4): 3–10. doi:10.2307/4126414. JSTOR 4126414.

References

Further reading

• Lynch, Amanda (24 November 2002). "Project documenting Pennsylvania's historic bridges". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
• "Why Architects Need to Know About Bridges: Lecture by Eric DeLony". University of Texas School of Architecture enews. 19 April 2007. Archived from the original on 27 August 2008. Retrieved 15 November 2007.

External links

• Smith, Jason D. (10 January 2017). "A Tribute to Eric DeLony". The Bridgehunter's Chronicles. Retrieved 30 October 2018.