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| memorials = | module = | spouse = | relations = | laterwork = | signature = | website = }} John Ripley Freeman (1855–1932) was an American civil and hydraulic engineer. Freeman was born in West Bridgton, Maine and received his undergraduate degree from MIT in 1876. He is noted for his efforts to design and build the Charles River Dam, advising the government on dam and lock foundations for the Panama Canal, and influencing the design of MIT's new campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was also the founder and president of Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He was a member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics during World War I, and served as chairman from 1918–1919. Freeman was the design engineer for several water projects, including the Lake Spaulding Dam, the Holter Dam, the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct, the Charles River Dam, the Keokuk Dam, the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and the Panama Canal).〔Mount, ''Sci-Tech Archives and Manuscript Collections,'' 1989, p. 49; Jackson, ''Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West,'' 2005, p. 285, fn. 33.〕 ==Degrees and Honors== * Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, Boston, Mass., June, 1876. * Elected Honorary Member Phi Beta Kappa at Brown University, 1901. * Doctor of Science, Brown University, 1904. * Doctor of Science, Tufts College, 1905. * Member National Academy of Sciences, 1918 * Doktor Ingenieur, Ehrenhalber, der Sachsischen Technischen Hochschule, Dresden, Germany, June, 1925 * Honorary Member, Marsaryk Academy of Works, Czecho-Slovakia, 1926. * Doctor of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1927 * Ehrenbürger (Honorary Member) der Badischen Technischen Hochschule, Karlsruhe, Germany, January, 1929 * Doctor of Science, Yale University, 1931 * Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Forschungs-Institutes in München und Walchcnsee, Bavaria, Germany, January, 1931. * Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Ripley Freeman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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