Henry C. Goldmark
{{Short description|American engineer (1857–1941)}}
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| birth_place = New York, New York
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| death_place = Nyack, New York
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| occupation = Engineer
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| spouse = {{Marriage|Mary Carter Tomkins|June 8, 1899}}
| children = 2
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- New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering
- Harvard University
- Royal Polytechnic University
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Henry C. Goldmark (June 15 1857 – January 15 1941) was an American engineer who designed and installed the Panama Canal locks.
Biography
Henry Goldmark was born in New York City on June 15, 1857.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LR2wwZjfH0C&pg=PA34 |title=The Makers of the Panama Canal |publisher=F. E. jackson & Son |page=34 |date=1911 |access-date=2023-04-26 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3LEnAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA32 |title=Harvard College Class of 1878 Secretary's Report No. VI |publisher=The Riverside Press |place=Cambridge |page=32 |date=1908 |access-date=2023-04-26 |via=Google Books}} He was an 1874 graduate of the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering.{{cite web|url=http://www.pancanal.com/eng/history/history/locks.html |title=Panama Canal History - Design of the Locks |publisher=Pancanal.com |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230532/http://www.pancanal.com/eng/history/history/locks.html |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead |access-date=2023-04-26}}{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jsk0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 |chapter=General Design of the Locks, Dams and Regulating Works of the Panama Canal |title=Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 |first=H. F. |last=Hodges |year=1916 |page=3 |accessdate=2023-04-26 |via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aaIgAQAAMAAJ&q=Panama+Canal+lock+system+designer+henry&pg=PA82 |title=Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer |year=1917 |accessdate=2015-06-18}}{{cite web|url=http://www.libraryweb.org/~digitized/books/Manual_on_lock_valves.pdf |title=Manual on lock valves |publisher=Libraryweb.org |accessdate=2015-06-18}}{{cite web |url=http://archive.poly.edu/poly_ebriefs/archives/Feb03.htm |title=ePoly Briefs Home |publisher=Archive.poly.edu |date= |accessdate=2015-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304225948/http://archive.poly.edu/poly_ebriefs/archives/Feb03.htm |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }} He earned a bachelor's degree at Harvard, and graduated from the Royal Polytechnic University at Hanover, German Empire in 1880.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofpanamac1915benn |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofpanamac1915benn/page/472 472] |quote=Panama Canal lock system designer henry. |title=History of the Panama Canal. - Ira E. Bennett |year=1915 |via=Internet Archive |accessdate=2015-06-18}}
He married Mary Carter Tomkins on June 8, 1899, and they had two children.
He died in Nyack, New York on January 15, 1941, after being struck by an automobile the previous night.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123606410/noted-engineer-dies/ |title=Noted Engineer Dies |newspaper=Asheville Citizen |place=Nyack, New York |agency=AP |date=1941-01-15 |publication-date=1941-01-16 |access-date=2023-04-26 |via=Newspapers.com}}
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Category:Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
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Category:Leibniz University Hannover alumni
Category:American expatriates in the German Empire
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