He was among the earliest designers of suspension bridges.

Medieval windows and drawings of them provided the source and inspiration for the nearly all the earlier 19th-century designers.

At the same time, though, the piazza itself has been much refined since its early papal designers went to work on it.

This was challenged by others, who thought that Paddleford had stolen from the earlier designer.

The problem originally seemed insuperable, and drove all early designers to multistage rockets.

He was an early American designer and advocate of sewer systems that keep domestic sewage separate from storm runoff.

He was one of the earliest American designers to introduce industrial materials into the home, well before the high-tech look became popular in the 70's.

He was an early designer of pension, profit-sharing and other employee-benefit programs for large corporations throughout the country.

An early designer of geothermal power plants, he was 89.

In 1877 he became one of the earliest European designers to visit Japan.