Haupt, Lewis

MUHLENBURG, civil engineer; born at Gettysburg, Pa., March 21, 1844; educated at Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, and at West Point, where he graduated in 1867; served on the U. S. Lake Survey (1867-69); resigned from the U. S. corps of engineers, and became engineer of Fair mount Park, Philadelphia. Was profe or of Civil Engineering in the University of Pennsylvania (1872-92), and in charge of the geodesy of Pennsylvania for the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; resigned his profe orship (1892) in order to engage in civil and maritime engineering practice. He has published Engineering Specifications and Contracts; The Topographer, and The American Engineering Register, also many papers on rivers and harbors, and has devised a method for improving harbors by the use of vertical deflectors for currents, and reaction breakwaters for littoral drift.