BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION Q &A 100 WPM

THIS IS Q & A DICTATION DONE IN TWO PARTS. PART ONE READ SLOWLY FOR ACCURACY  AND PART 2 IS READ SLIGHTLY FASTER THAN THE FIRST FOR SOME SPEEDBUILDING. PLEASE READ YOUR NOTES! THANKS FOR SUPPORTING AND DON'T FORGET TO HELP ME HELP YOU BY SUBSCRIBING .  PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT PROVIDED BELOW.  FROM THE BOOK OF LEGAL DICATION Q: [BY THE CHAIRMAIN]  Your residence?  A: 625 Ferry St, Boston  Q: What is your age?  A: Forty-one Q: You were the builder of this bridge?  A: A portion of it Q: Please describe as fully as you can, your whole connection to it, in your own words.  A:  It is so long ago that I don't know whether I can remember all that you would like to hear, but the contract required me to build a truss to be placed upon the east side of the bridge, and I was to furnish the floor system. That was done in the spring or early summer of 1876.  Q:  Go on and describe more in detail what you did. Were you in business for yourself or were you representing a company? A:  I was in business for myself.  Q:  Go on and tell us about the bridge; where the work was done, how the work was done, the character of the bridge, the nature of its construction. etc. Perhaps you had better begin, and state , in the first place, your experience as a builder. A: My first experience  in building iron bridges was with the Detroit Bridge & Iron Works, Detroit Michigan.  Q: [BY MR. O'BRIEN]  What year?  A: I think it was 1863; and my experience has been from then until--I am not sure this bridge wasn't the last I built. Since then I have acted occasionally as a consulting engineer.  Q: [BY THE CHAIRMAIN]  Do you have a scientific education?  A: Yes, sir, at the Lawrence Scientific School, at Cambridge.  Q: Full course?  A: No, sir. Partial.  Q: What was your course then? A: I was there one year only.  Q: What year was that?  A: I'm not sure but I think it was 1862-63.  From there I went to St. Louis.  Q: How long were you with St. Louis Bridge & Iron Company? A: Well, I don't recollect; but several years.  Q: What were you doing there?  A: I designed their bridges, proportioned them, and I made some portions of the drawings.  Q: Did you do that all the time you were there?  A: Yes, sir.  Q: Do you remember any bridges you designed at that time?  A: Well, there was one drawbridge across the Mississippi River, where the C.B. & Q railroad crosses, --Clinton on one side and Fulton on the other.  Q: How long did that stand?  A: It is standing now, I suppose. That was at that time the longest drawbridge, I think, in the world. Some have been built longer since. There were a great many on the Illinois Central and the C.B. & Q and other words through the Western states.  Q: Did you build any bridges in Massachusetts when you were with the St. Louis Bridge & Iron Works?  A: No, sir. Q: Then you left the St. Louis Bridge & Iron Works at what time?  A: I don't recollect the date.  Q: You were there about three years, you say? A: I said several; but I don't recollect how many years it was; I could not tell even approximately.  Q: What did you do after you left there?  SOURCE: LEGAL DICTATION --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sandra-clay/support