Biography
Schneider was born in Apolda in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. He graduated from the Royal Technical School at Chemnitz, Germany, in 1864, and came to the United States in 1897. Having emigrated to the United States, he engaged in locomotive and bridge construction. He was one of the engineers that were involved in the erection of the Statue of Liberty in 1886. Among the many bridges he designed and built are the cantilever Fraser River bridge on the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Niagara Cantilever Bridge. Schneider also was the head of the team investigating the first collapse of the Quebec Bridge in 1907, and in 1911 became a member of the board of engineers for the bridge.
He was vice president of the American Bridge Company 1900-1903. In 1905 Schneider was named president of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was twice awarded with the Norman Medal which “recognizes a paper that makes a definitive contribution to engineering science,” in 1905 and in 1908. About 1910 he ran an engineering office together with Frederick C. Kunz in Philadelphia.
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