The father of prestressed concrete
Subtitle: teaching engineers, bridging rivers and borders, 1931 to 1999
By: T.Y. Lin ; with an introduction by Alex C. Scordelis. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1999. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Swent, Eleanor.; Gerwick, Ben C.; Ketchum, Mark Allen.; Lin, Margaret, 1918-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2001
Subjects: University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Engineering -- Faculty.; Moscone Convention Center (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Design and construction.; China. Tie dao bu.; Civil engineers -- California -- Interviews.; Prestressed concrete construction.; Prestressed concrete.; Bridges, Arched -- Design and construction.; Bridges, Cable-stayed -- Design and construction.; Pʻu-tung (Shanghai, China) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: T.Y. and Margaret Lin at home.
Description: Lin and Guo family history in China; education at home, and at American Methodist School, Jiao Tong University, 1927-1931, and UC Berkeley, 1931-1933; engineer, Chinese Ministry of Railways, 1933-1945; professor of engineering, UC Berkeley, since 1946; organizing 1957 world conference, promoting prestressed concrete technology; formation of T.Y. Lin companies, construction of Caracas racetrack, Managua Bank of America, Moscone Center, Kuwait harbor, buildings in Puerto Rico, Kuala Lumpur, Phoenix; building arch and cable bridges: Hegenberger, Idaho, Kwang Du, Rio Colorado, Twin Cities Mississippi River, Kwang Fu, I-205 at Portland, and others; bridges not built, Ruck-a-Chucky, Bering Strait, Gibraltar Strait; development of Pudong project, Shanghai, 1980, and influencing Chinese leaders; comments on Buckminster Fuller, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ronald Reagan; critiques of Bay Area bridges, thoughts on optimization. Includes supplementary interviews: wife Margaret Lin on life in wartime China, life in America; colleagues Ben C. Gerwick, Jr., Mark Ketchum.

Lin reviews and comments on one hundred slides covering his personal life, roof structures, building structures, girder bridges, arch bridges, cable bridges, strait crossings, and Shanghai Pudon development. The slides accompany the interview, conducted September 11, 2000 by Eleanor Swent.

T.Y. and Margaret Lin at home, videographed by Suzanne Riess, Kathryn Stine, and Eleanor Swent in 2002.