He was graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1877 and then studied in
Berlin,
German Empire, for three years. On his return to the United States, he settled in
Boston. In 1887 he became professor of civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was then located in Boston. He remained at MIT until 1909, when he became professor of civil engineering at the Harvard Graduate School of Applied Science. He also served as consulting engineer of the
Massachusetts Railroad Commission, and in 1894 became a member of the Boston Transit Commission, becoming its chairman in 1913. ==Works==