[DOC] [TLE] Benjamin Wright: The Father of American Civil Engineering ... [PAR] Benjamin Wright helped build transportation and canal systems in the United 
States and served as the chief engineer on the construction of the Erie Canal. ... 
fell to Wright, who served as the chief engineer on the project between 1817 and 
1825. ... the canal in 1827, the first ship to travel through it received the name 
Chief... [DOC] [TLE] The Erie Canal, America's First Great Work of Civil Engineering The ... [PAR] No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever 
without .... for the Erie Canal near Rome, New York on Independence Day 1817, 
the United ... 1825 joined the Hudson River and Lake Erie and thus the Eastern 
seaboard ... possible; with Wright, he was named one of its chief engineers, 
ultimately... [DOC] [TLE] Benjamin Wright - Wikipedia [PAR] Benjamin Wright (October 10, 1770  August 24, 1842) was an American civil 
engineer who was chief engineer of the Erie Canal and the Chesapeake ... What 
crested challenges for the canal construction were the multiple ... mules. In 
Wright's honor, the first boat to traverse the canal system was named the Chief 
Engineer. [DOC] [TLE] Building the Erie Canal [PAR] New Yorkers mulled the problem over and 1817 approved the building of the Erie 
Canal ... Judge Benjamin Wright was appointed chief engineer and James 
Geddes; ... made a preliminary survey of the canal's route, was named assistant 
chief. ... to survey with the compass, level, and chain, but were in no sense 
engineers. [DOC] [TLE] Jeopary Questions page 885 - U.S. GOVERNMENT - TriviaBistro.com [PAR] THE WRIGHT STUFF: Benjamin Wright, & not a mule named Sal, was chief 
engineer for the construction of this waterway from 1817 to 1825  
CONTEMPORARY... [DOC] [TLE] Songs of the Erie Canal [PAR] York Assembly passed tbe canal bill on April 15, 1817. The ... Chief Engineer 
Benjamin Wright realized that the level stretch ... creators of the canal, contributed 
not only through labor, but ... October 26, 1825, in Buffalo, New York. ... Why 
mules and not horses? .... I fell in love with the cook, a cross-eyed gal named Sal,
. [DOC] [TLE] The_Grand_Canal_New_Yorks_First_Thruway.pdf grand-canal ... [PAR] The work can be easily effected) and the utmost cost will not exceed our .... met in 
1817 DeWitt Clinton was ... for all the future traffic on the canal. Benjamin. Wright, 
another of the key engineers, ... chief lake port in western New York, the total 
tonnage at Buffalo being ..... and her name is Sal, fifteen miles on the Erie Canal."
. [DOC] [TLE] Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout: Clinton's Ditch Opened up an Empire [PAR] Oct 26, 2014 ... I've got an old mule and her name is Sal ... The Erie Canal opened October 26, 
1825. ... 1817 proved to be a big, break-out year for the canal. ... fact that in the 
entire United States there was not one trained civil engineer. ... and Benjamin 
Wright were in over-all charge of construction and learned by doing. [DOC] [TLE] History & Heritage 2000 - American Society of Civil Engineers [PAR] ... (the Mahele Book) listed under the name of each potential claimant the lands 
assigned ... paying tribune to the ruling chief and not to the chief of the ahupua'a. [DOC] [TLE] Engineering Legends - ASCE [PAR] Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 1969, Benjamin Wright had an enormously 
colorful .... ficially named the project's chief engineer in 1817. Calling on all his... [DOC] [TLE] Complete Book PDF (4036 KB) - ASCE [PAR] growth of U.S. civil engineering, including the work of Benjamin Wright,. 
Benjamin .... known as Warrington Construction. .... ize his name on the family 
enterprise, tending to sustain public ...... In response to the 1825 success of the 
Erie Canal, similar new ...... out door work was not practicableThe chief 
engineer in charge. [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "History of Lewis County, New York; with...biographical

Question: Benjamin Wright, & not a mule named Sal, was chief engineer for the construction of this waterway from 1817 to 1825
Answer: Erie Canal