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About Homer Gage Balcom
Homer G. Balcom (1870–1938) was a structural engineer who was responsible for designing the Empire State Building. Balcom was the most prominent consulting structural engineer in America after World War I. He earned his degree in civil engineering in 1897 from Cornell University.
During World War I he volunteered to engineer steel ships for U.S. government at the Hog Island, Pennsylvania shipyards. Because of his contributions, 122 military vessels were built for the war effort at Hog Island, the most of any shipyard by a wide margin.
Homer was a Mason.
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Homer Gage Balcom's Timeline
| 1870 |
February 16, 1870
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Kendall, Orleans County, New York, United States
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| 1938 |
July 3, 1938
Age 68
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Manhattan, New York, New York County, New York, United States
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