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- Male
- December 20, 1843
- Emma (Babcock) Horton
- July 29, 1912
Throop Street and 105th Street; Chicago, Illinois. Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (officially CB&I) traces its history to Horace Ebenezer Horton, who was born in 1843 in New York State. In 1858, he moved to Rochester, Minnesota; where he later took up the profession of civil engineer. His first bridge was designed and constructed at Oronoco ...
- Improved Oilfield Structures
- Liquefied Natural Gas
- Poughkeepsie Hortonsphere
- Liquified Natural Gas at Sea
The company had brought its steel plate engineering expertise to the oil and natural gas industry as early as 1919, when it built a petroleum tank farm in Glenrock, Wyoming, for Sinclair Refining Company (formed by Harry Sinclair in 1916). CB&I’s innovative steel plate structures and its tank building technologies proved a great success. The compan...
Soon, spherical vessels of all sizes were being used for storage of compressed gases such propane and butane. Hortonspheres also hold liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced by cooling natural gas at atmospheric pressure to minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, at which point it liquefies. In an iconic engineering example of form following function, a sphere ...
Fascinated by geodesic domes and similar structures, Jeff Buster discovered a vintage Hortonsphere in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 2012 he contacted the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. Buster wanted the agency to save Horton’s sphere at at the corner of Dutchess and North Water streets. He asked that an effort b...
Sphere technology became seaborn as well. On February 20, 1959, after a three-week voyage from Lake Charles, Louisiana, the Methane Pioneer— the world’s first LNG tanker — arrived at the world’s first LNG terminal at Canvey Island, England. The Methane Pioneer, a converted World War II liberty freighter, contained five, 7,000-barrel aluminum tanks ...
Oct 4, 2017 · Since 1923, Horton’s Chicago bridge-building company has fabricated more than 3,500 Hortonspheres worldwide with capacities exceeding 3 million gallons. Learn more petroleum history at www.aoghs.org. “Making Hole” is a term for drilling coined long before oil or natural gas were anything more than flammable curiosities.
Nov 4, 1970 · DETROIT, Nov. 3 (AP)—A probate judge signed an order yesterday naming seven grand children as legal heir's, to the $48–million estate of Horace E. Dodge, auto industry pioneer who died in 1920...
Bishop Smith has been happily married to Susan Davenport Smith since 1976. They met at the University of Illinois where Susan graduated with a B.S. in Pharmacy. They have three beautiful daughters: Lauren Elrod, Rachel Horton, and Emily Green along with their sons-in-law Brian Elrod, Courtney Horton, Patrick Green, and seven grandchildren.
Dec 31, 2014 · Chicago Bridge & Iron Works : Horace E. Horton, proprietor : engineers, manufacturers, erectors of water towers, standpipes, oil tanks, gasholders, smoke stacks ...
