This Thursday, Dr. Jill Jonnes, author of Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels, will tell the story of an extraordinary engineering feat - the building of electrified railroad tunnels under the Hudson River, Manhattan, and the East River to Long Island, capping them all off with Pennsylvania Station. You can check out Conquering Gotham from the Dibner Library (call number TF302.N7 J66 2007).

SPEAKER:
Dr. Jill Jonnes earned her B.A. at Barnard College, her M.S. at Columbia Journalism School and her Ph.D. in American History at Johns Hopkins University. She has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar and a frequent recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation. Conquering Gotham (Viking, 2007) is her fourth history book, and the second in a Gilded Age engineering trilogy.

DATE: Thursday, October 4, 2007
TIME: Refreshments start at 5:30 p.m., Lecture is from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
LOCATION: Polytechnic University Pfizer Auditorium, 5 MetroTech Center
COST: Free to American Society of Civil Engineers members, $15 to non-members to meet PDH award requirements.

Presented by ASCE Metropolitan Section Infrastructure Group in collaboration with Polytechnic University Department of Civil Engineering.

Lecture details available in PDF