World's Fair Engineers

*Harvey H. Johnson's projects included the Pavilion of Electric Power, which featured a spiral-shaped viewing platform overlooking a 40 ft tall shell that simulated a dam.  Three thousand gallons of water per minute flowed over the spillway into a large pond at the base, which also featured a map pinpointing dams in Washington State. 

*Norm Jacobson's projects include the Seattle World's Fair Parking Garage in 1961, recognized by design awards and published in engineering magazines at the time.  He presented "Seattle Center Self-Parking Facility" at the 15th Fall Convention of the American Concrete Institute held in Seattle September 28-29, 1962. 

*Fred Pneuman did work on the Home of Living Light (a temporary structure) for the Douglas Fir Plywood Association at the Seattle World's Fair.  

*John Skilling worked on the design of the United States Science Pavilion (later Pacific Science Center) for the Seattle World’s Fair of 1962.  Reviewing the project drawings, Skilling noted that the columns supporting the geometric domes seemed “a bit chunky.”  He said, “I can make those columns thinner."  The resulting graceful structures became emblematic of the Fair’s futuristic theme, and remain a Seattle landmark. 

*At left:  Reprint from Civil Engineering, February 1962; Modern Steel Construction (AISC) January 1962, highlighting "Step into the Next Century: For a big problem of Man in the Space Age, structural steel provides down-to-earth answers"

"In Transit" at SEAW Spring Social:  Seattle Monorail engineer Einar Svensson with King County Executive Dow Constantine 6/14/12