{"id":4323,"date":"2014-03-05T15:02:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2014-03-05T15:09:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:09:53","slug":"more-pins-added-to-the-engineering-map-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2014\/03\/05\/more-pins-added-to-the-engineering-map-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"More pins added to the Engineering Map of America!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4318\" style=\"width: 709px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/02\/1989-0073_ph_0264.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4318\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4318\" alt=\"Rapallo Viaduct, East Hampton, Connecticut\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/02\/1989-0073_ph_0264.jpg\" width=\"699\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/02\/1989-0073_ph_0264.jpg 699w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/02\/1989-0073_ph_0264-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/02\/1989-0073_ph_0264-472x300.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rapallo Viaduct, East Hampton, Connecticut<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the last couple of weeks we have been actively and joyously participating in adding our photographs to the American Experience interactive initiative The Engineering Map of America, at<a title=\"Engineering Map of America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/interactive-map\/penn-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/interactive-map\/penn-engineering\/<\/a>. \u00a0We just put up more pins of Connecticut&#8217;s engineering marvels! \u00a0These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rapallo Viaduct in East Hampton and Lyman Viaduct in Colchester, both built in 1873 for the Boston &amp; New York Air Line Railroad and now part of the Air Line State Park Trail<\/li>\n<li>Taft Tunnel in Lisbon, the oldest (1837) railroad tunnel in the U.S. still in existence used in its original form<\/li>\n<li>The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear powered submarine in the world, now a historic site at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton<\/li>\n<li>and the steam turbine &#8220;Mary Ann&#8221; built for the Hartford Electric Light Company in 1901 and installed in their Pearl Street, Hartford, generating station.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let me know if you can recommend other engineering marvels in the state and I will check to see if we have a photograph in the collection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In the last couple of weeks we have been actively and joyously participating in adding our photographs to the American Experience interactive initiative The Engineering Map of America, at\u00a0http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/interactive-map\/penn-engineering\/. \u00a0We just put up more pins of Connecticut&#8217;s engineering marvels! 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