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Chief engineer and third president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. John Edgar Thomson (February 10, 1808 – May 27, 1874) was an American civil engineer and industrialist. An entrepreneur best known for his leadership of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) from 1852 until his death in 1874, Thomson made it the largest business enterprise ...
10. Apr. 2024 · J. Edgar Thomson was an American civil engineer and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company who consolidated a network of railroad lines from Philadelphia to various cities in the Midwest and the South, extending as far as Chicago and Norfolk, Va. Thomson joined the Pennsylvania engineer.
J. Edgar Thomson - Management and Railroad Pioneer. J. Edgar Thomson: Master of the Pennsylvania Railroad. During the 1850's and 60's, the railroad revolution rocked the industrializing world, in much the same way that the internet revolution is changing things today.
He was the father of the famous civil engineer and longtime president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, John Edgar Thomson, who was himself a mapmaker. In 1873 the younger Thomson donated his father's 1809 map to the Delaware County Institute of Science to substantiate the claim that the map and Leiper's railroad were the first such work in North ...
John Edgar Thomson (1808 –1874) was a civil engineer and industrialist, best known for his leadership of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) from 1852 until his death 1874. The PRR became the largest business enterprise in the world and a model for technological innovation under his leadership.
29. Apr. 2022 · John Edgar Thomson (February 10, 1808 – May 27, 1874) was an American civil engineer, railroad executive and industrialist. Thomson was an entrepreneur best known for his leadership of the Pennsylvania Railroad from its founding in 1852 to his death 1874, making it the largest business enterprise in the world and a world-class ...
Known for. Chief engineer and third President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. John Edgar Thomson (February 10, 1808 – May 27, 1874) was an American civil engineer and industrialist. An entrepreneur best known for his leadership of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) from 1852 until his death in 1874, Thomson made it the largest business enterprise ...
