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Hugh Lincoln Cooper (April 28, 1865–June 24, 1937) was an American colonel and civil engineer, known for construction supervision of a number of hydroelectric power plants.




Biography



Born in Houston County in Sheldon, Minnesota, Cooper was a self-educated civil engineer. He worked throughout the United States, Canada, Brazil, Egypt, and Soviet Union. During World War I he served as a supervising engineer in the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Cooper died in Stamford, Connecticut in 1937.




Supervised constructions


Toronto Power Generating Station, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (1906)
Keokuk Dam, Hamilton, Illinois and Keokuk, Iowa (1910-1913)
Wilson Dam, Shoals Shore, Alabama (1918-1924)
Lake Zumbro Hydroelectric Generating Plant, Mazeppa, Minnesota (1919)
Dniprohes, Soviet Union (now Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) (1927-1932) — upon completion of the project, Hugh Cooper was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour




References






External links



Hugh Lincoln Cooper Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine at the American Society of Civil Engineers website.
M. Bourke-White, Image of Col. Hugh L. Cooper supervising the building of the great dam across the Dineper River Archived 2012-03-26 at the Wayback Machine. Life Magazine, 1931.
Hugh L. Cooper speaks to MIT civil engineers Archived 2015-07-15 at the Wayback Machine, January 1915.
H. Dorn (1979). "Hugh Lincoln Cooper and the First Détente". Technology and Culture. 20 (2): 322–347. doi:10.2307/3103869.

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