1926 ROADS & STREETS Magazine Equipment Antique Hercules Engines MACK Truck Ads

Description: Great rare and rather obscure publication - Roads and Streets News (1926) Halbert P. Gillette, President and Editor. These are FULL of wonderful heavy machinery ads. Including: Hercules EnginesSullivan MachineryLink BeltCleveland Rock DrillsIndiana Motor TrucksWaukesha Motor CompanyMack Erie Steam ShovelRussell Motor PatrolMead-Morrisonand much more. Any questions just ask. Will ship with extra care. CLB ---- Halbert Powers Gillette (1869–1958) was an American engineer and prolific author of textbooks and handbooks for the engineering and construction fields.[1][2][3] Biography Born on August 5, 1869,[4] in Waverly, Iowa, to Theodore Weld and Laetitia S. (Powers),[5] Gillette attended the Hammond Hall Academy in Salt Lake City, from which he graduated in 1886. Six years later in 1892, he received his engineering degree at the School of Mines at Columbia University,[5] where he was classmate of Edward B. Durham.[6] After some years working in the industry, Gillette served as assistant New York State Engineer under Campbell W. Adams from 1896 to 1898. The next three years he worked as a contractor, and from 1903 to 1905 he was associate editor of the Engineering News.[5] In 1905, he founded Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc., where he became president. From 1906 to 1907, he served as chief engineer of the Washington Railroad Commission.[5] Later, Gillette became an instructor of science at Columbia University. Gillette was a member of the American Society of Consulting Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Engineering Contractors, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education.

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