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	William Barclay Parsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Barclay Parsons (April 15, 1859 - May 9, 1932) was a famous American civil engineer.
		He founded the firm that became Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas, one of the largest American civil engineering firms.
		He was also Chief Engineer of the New York Rapid Transit Commission, and was responsible for the construction of the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) subway line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Barclay_Parsons (134 words)

	NYPL, Exhibitions at the Science, Industry and Business Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Subway at 100: General William Barclay Parsons and the Birth of the NYC Subway
		Celebrating the centennial of the opening of the New York City subway system in 1904, this exhibition both salutes William Barclay Parsons, the first chief engineer of the subway, and recognizes the importance of the subway system to the life and growth of the city.
		Many items on view are drawn from the Libraryâs William Barclay Parsons Collection; other materials are on loan from The New-York Historical Society, The Museum of the City of New York, The Transit Museum, The Museum of American Financial History, and the Parsons Brinckerhoff archives.
	www.nypl.org /research/calendar/exhib/sibl/siblexhibdesc.cfm?id=349 (361 words)

	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Today's Honorary Subscriber is the talented American engineer William Barclay Parsons (1859-1932), whose crowning achievement in a lifetime of impressive engineering feats was his work on the first New York City subway system, which ran from Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn to Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.
		Parsons remained in charge of the project until 1904 when the first section of the subway was completed.
		Parsons served in the Spanish-American War, and in World War I he was a much-decorated colonel in the 11th U.S. Engineers, celebrated for battling the enemy at Cambrai with picks and shovels.
	www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=359 (329 words)

	GoCincinnati Traffic -- Fort Washington Way (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Parsons said he opened up shop in New York City and took on hefty projects so he would be positioned to build a subway there.
		Parsons Brinckerhoff became involved unofficially in 1995 after it looked as if the city was moving ahead with a $40 million plan to repair the expressway.
		By 1997, Parsons was well-positioned to win the job as the city's lead design consultant and engineer on the project.
	www.cincinnati.com /traffic/fww/insider.html (894 words)

	String Can Phone: transportation Archives
		The story of Parsons and his outsize determination is the thread that winds through an exhibition looking back at 100 years of the subway, opening on Tuesday at the New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business Library.
		Most effectively, however, the show demonstrates the meticulous resolve of Parsons and suggests that it undoubtedly took someone with his kind of whiz-kid hauteur to dig an underground train tunnel nine miles through the world's second most populous city - and finish the whole thing in little more than four years.
		John V. Ganly, the assistant director for collections at the library, who oversaw the subway show, said that Parsons was apparently renowned for his practicality and precision for the rest of his life.
	www.xradiograph.com /movabletype/archives/cat_transportation.html (1474 words)

	Item 50
		William Barclay Parsons attended Columbia University and graduated in 1882.
		Parsons made an important survey of Chinese railroads (1898-99), was on the board of consulting engineers for the Panama Canal (1905), and was Chief engineer for the Cape Cod Canal (1905-14).
		In addition to this diary, Columbia received Parson's diaries kept during his work on the Panama Canal and during World War I, as well as his fine collection of railroad prints.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/treasures/html/50.html (165 words)

	subway
		William Barclay Parsons had been the chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Commission of 1894 that had investigated the technical feasibility of a New York subway.
		Parsons recommended that the subway should be electric.
		It was also he who decided that the subway be built within 15 to 20 feet of the surface, bypassing Manhattan's hard schist which would have been very difficult to tunnel through.
	xellex.freehomepage.com /Subway/page6.html (1362 words)

	NYPL Digital Gallery \| Illustrated Classics of Engineering from the William Barclay Parsons Collection and Others
		A major gift to NYPL was the collection of William Barclay Parsons who served on the Board of the Library from 1911 until his death in 1932.
		General Parsons was also the chief engineer of the New York City subway system and a great many volumes in the collection deal with civil engineering projects and transportation engineering, dating from the 15th to the 20th century.
		Unlike academic institutions whose libraries' collections are curriculum-driven, NYPL operates as a major research center for the public, assembling and preserving such ordinary and practical resources as trade catalogs and journals, professional conference proceedings, blueprints, government documents, and numerous other items relating to engineering in the broadest sense.
	digitalgallery.nypl.org /nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=all&collection=IllustratedClassicso&col_id=168 (420 words)

	Parsons Brinckerhoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), founded in 1885, is one of the oldest continuously operating engineering firms in the United States, with a long history of tunnelling innovations.
		Throughout its history, PB has successfully managed a broad range of tunnelling projects, including underground highways, rail tunnels, aqueducts and wastewater outfalls, and secure underground facilities.
		PB's tunnelling history began with William Barclay Parsons' design of the original New York subway system, the first extensive use of cut-and-cover construction in the United States.
	www.mjconstruct.com /info/cprofiles/parsons.asp (479 words)

	Subway Pioneers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chief engineer of the New York Rapid Transit Commission, Parsons was the guiding force behind the design and construction of the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) System.
		An early benefactor to the subway, used in connections to Europe's Rothschild family to raise money and complete the job by 1904; wanted all-steel cars for the subway vs. the wooden body norm, leading to "composite" car.
		Developed the "Third Rail" concept in mass transit subway systems; 60 patents, the majority concerned with railroad telegraphs, electrical brakes and electrical railway systems; some referred to Woods as the "Black Edison".
	www.subwaywebnews.com /subway_pioneers.htm (130 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -Rapid Transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gotham's competing transit companies built new lines and extended old ones with unmatched vigor, and by 1937 the region had 308 route miles (and more than 700 track miles) of rapid transit service and was handling 4.2 million passengers per day, exclusive of bus and streetcar patronage.
		As designed by Chief Engineer William Barclay Parsons, New York's subway was the first in the world with a fully integrated express and local system.
		Parsons chose the cut-and-cover method of digging, and his underground became a model for the construction of rapid transit elsewhere.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_072006_rapidtransit.htm (272 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Governor William Bradford had a vision of excavating a waterway through the Cape in order to trade with Dutch colonies on the south side.
		He believed that it would be easier to sail goods to the Dutch, rather, then carry the goods over nine miles of hilly landscape.
		Parsons was responsible for the engineering of the Panama Canal a few years earlier.
	web.bryant.edu /~ehu/h364proj/fall_97/mongeon/intro1.html (250 words)

	A Little Church Built on Christian Fellowship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Wells from Atlantic Highlands was the general contractor.
		Robert Hartshorne a parishioner of All Saints Church donated a vast quantity of lumber which was taken from the "Hartshorne Woods" and milled by his employees on his farm.
		William Barclay Parsons, an area summer resident, volunteered his world-renowned engineering experience.
	www.highlandsnj.com /news/html/NewsDocs/church.html (655 words)

	SCDOT - Cooper River Bridge Replacement - Building the Bridge - Partners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) is the lead bridge designer on the project.
		Transportation has been the cornerstone of PB since its founder, William Barclay Parsons was chief engineer for the original New York subway.
		Acknowledged as one of the world's leading transportation engineering firms, PB has garnered numerous awards, yielded several industry "firsts", and published guides which have set the standards for their profession.
	www.cooperriverbridge.org /partners.html (666 words)

	Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. - Fact Sheet - Hoover's
		After converting the US, Parsons Brinckerhoff is spreading its word around the globe.
		Founded in 1885 by William Barclay Parsons, the firm designed New York City's first subway.
		There are 16 competitors for Parsons Brinckerhoff; see more.
	hoovers.com /parsons-brinckerhoff/--ID__44280--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml (287 words)

	NYPL Digital Gallery \| Explore All Collections
		Originated by William Perris and commonly called "fire insurance e maps," they show streets, blocks, tax lots, and use classifications plus earlier natural and manmade features.
		Ellis Island Photographs from the Collection of William Williams, Commissioner of Immigration, 1902-1913
		More than 54,000 New York City archival photographs (and their captioned versos) from the 1870s-1970s arranged by borough and street; the majority are exterior building views and neighborhood scenes from the 1910s-1940s.
	digitalgallery.nypl.org /nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?... (3097 words)

	Scots and Scots Descendants - P
		1859) is partly descended from Colonel Thomas Barclay, a Tory of the Revolution.
		Married Mary, daughter of William and Mary (Livingston) Robertson; in the home of her brother, William Robertson, Jr.
		Soon after his marriage he returned wit his young bride to Somonauk, IL and settled on his farm adjoining that of his brother William, on the north, where he made his home until 1854, when he moved with his family to Sandwich, IL to begin a business career.
	www.chicago-scots.org /clubs/History/Names-P-Q.htm (7099 words)

	Cape Cod Canal, Canal Story, Army Corps of Engineers, US Army
		Belmont then enlisted the services of a renowned Civil Engineer, William Barclay Parsons, to investigate the feasibility of such a project.
		Acting on Parsons recommendation, the Company also placed narrow gauge railroad tracks along the Canal route to enable railed dump cars to carry material off to the sides of the cut.
		As the waters trickled through, Belmont and Parsons shook hands; the long awaited completion of the Cape Cod Canal was now in sight.
	www.nae.usace.army.mil /recreati/ccc/history/canalstory.htm (1790 words)

	Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Leary, William M. Under Ice: Waldo Lyon and the Development of the Arctic Submarine.
		Williams, Marion D. Submarines Under Ice: the U.S. Navy’s Polar Operations.
		Hardy, William M. USS Mudskipper: The Submarine that Wrecked a Train; a novel.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/cno/n87/biblio.html (1075 words)

	Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The original proposal of 1950, tying a bridge to Newport’s Ocean Drive, was approved by the Navy but not by many local residents.
		The engineering firm of Parsons,Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas, first made famous for founder William Barclay Parsons’ designs of the New York City subway system and the Cape Cod Canal, recommended a bridge on the line that has now been used, from Taylor’s Point in Jamestown to Washington Street in Newport.
		Unfortunately, a 1960 referendum that would have given the Authority its necessary bond-selling power was not approved by voters, but in 1964, the bonding measure was finally ratified and later re-approved in 1965.
	www.ritba.org /newport.htm (560 words)

	Savi Technology: Services Partners
		Parsons Brinkerhoff is a Savi services partner and team member in Operation Safe Commerce.
		From the time that its founder, William Barclay Parsons, designed New York City's first subway line and stretched a railroad across China, Parsons Brinckerhoff has grown into one of the world's leading planning, engineering, program and construction management, and operations and maintenance firms.
		Today, Parsons Brinkerhoff provides comprehensive infrastructure services on six continents and continues to create new paths throughout the world.
	www.savi.com /partners/services.shtml (372 words)

	Magor Car Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1898/99, he was one of the engineers in China with General William Barclay Parsons locating the railroad from Hankow to Canton.
		According to his Obituary, in 1902 Basil founded and became the first President of the Magor Car Corporation, in Passaic, NJ, of which he was a Director at his death in 1933.
		During the 1st World War, Robert was an advisor to William G. McAdoo, head of the United States Railway Administration (USRA), and assisted in the handling of the largest order for railway cars ever placed, to the tune of $3 million.
	www.ironhorse129.com /RollingStock/builders/magor.htm (1576 words)

	Parsons Brinckerhoff chooses EON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), one of the world’s leading planning, engineering, and program and construction management organisations, has invested in EON’s immersive display systems to further stengthen their transportation and visualization strategy.
		Transportation has been the cornerstone of PB’s practice since their founder William Barclay Parsons was chief engineer for the original New York City subway.
		For more information about PB and their approach please visit the Homeland Security and Defence Seminar which will be held on June 10th at George Washington University in Washington DC.
	www.eonreality.com /news/NewsFlash/PBWorld.htm (394 words)

	PB Network \| Issue 48 \| William Barclay Parsons Fellowship Monograph is Instrumental in Business
		Sunil's William Barclay Parsons Fellowship monograph is proving to be instrumental in helping clients to take advantage of the opportunities resulting from the deregulated electric power industry.
		The William Barclay Parsons Fellowship Program was started in 1985 to honor PB's founder and encourage technical excellence in the firm.
		This annual program sponsors employees' exploration of state-of-the-art topics and demonstrates the importance of developing technical mentor relationships within the firm.
	www.pbworld.com /news_events/publications/network/Issue_48/48_30_TalatiS_ParsonsFellowship.asp (961 words)

	SDOT - News Releases
		Crunican selected Spillar to manage the staff of 125 because of his nationally recognized expertise in congestion relief and his long history of working with Seattle residents on transportation issues.
		Spillar spent the last 12 years at Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas, Inc. His work included managing some of the firm's largest projects in the country, including major interstate and rail corridor projects.
		Spillar was designated the 1995 William Barclay Parsons Fellow by the PB Board of Directors and published a comprehensive planning and design handbook on park-and-ride facilities which will become the basis for national guidelines.
	www.cityofseattle.net /Transportation/n010803b.htm (416 words)

	Medals and Tokens of the New York City Subway System
		With the new employee contract of 1970 a 23mm token was introduced for the 30-cent fare, which in September 1973 became 35-cents, and in 1975 50-cents.
		In the anticipation of the 1975 fare increase, the NYCTA had the Roger Williams Mint strike up copper-tone solid 22mm tokens, which were distributed to the press and news media to spread that new tokens were on the way and don't bother hoarding.
		In 1986 50 million new steel centered brass tokens were minted by the Roger Williams Mint at a cost of $5,750,000.
	www.nycsubway.org /tech/tokens/tokensmedals.html (3595 words)

	The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: The New York Subway, 1904-2004
		He decided that most of the tunnel would be built just below street level using a method known as "cut and cover" that had been employed in the Boston subway three years earlier.
		Under Parsons' plan, picks and shovels were used to loosen and remove the earth, exposing the utility lines, which were disassembled and re-routed.
		Rock tunneling was notoriously dangerous, so Parsons brought in miners from Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ireland, Scandinavia, South Africa and elsewhere to help with the most difficult section: a two-mile stretch from 158th Street in Washington Heights to Hillside Avenue in Fort George.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/10/23/opinion/23mckendry.html?ex=1256270400&en=cbe480fb896bf8a2&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (942 words)

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