David P. Billington

DAVID P. BILLINGTON was the Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Princeton University, where he taught for 50 years. He was the author of The Tower and the Bridge and Robert Maillart’s Bridges: The Art of Engineering.

Billington received the 1979 Dexter Prize for the outstanding book on the history of technology and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986. He joined Princeton’s civil engineering faculty in 1960, following a Fulbright scholarship to study civil engineering in Belgium after graduating from Princeton in 1950.

David P. Billington died in Los Angeles, California.

David P. Billington’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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