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WELLINGTON, Arthur Mellen, civil engineer, born in Waltham, Massachusetts, 20 December, 1847. He was graduated at the Boston Latin-school, and was about to enter Harvard when his eyesight failed, and he turned his attention to civil engineering, studying under Professor John B. Henck in Boston. On the completion of his studies he engaged actively in the work, and among other places has held those of chief engineer of the Interoceanic railway from Vera Cruz to Mexico and assistant general manager of the Mexican Central railway. He devised a plan for multiplying the traffic facilities of the Brooklyn bridge fivefold, which was recommended in 1887 by the board of experts in preference to all others. Mr. Wellington has been a member of the American society of civil engineers since 1881. In addition to his professional work, he is editor of the " Engineering News" in New York city, and has published " Computation from Diagrams of Railway Earthworks " (New York, 1878);" Economic Theory of the Location of Railways" (1878; enlarged ed., 1887); "Car-Builders' Dictionary" (New York, 1884) ; and "Field Work of Railway Location and Laying out of Works" (1889).
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