Thomas Curtis Clarke

Thomas Curtis Clarke (1827–1901) was an American civil engineer, a specialist in railway construction and bridge building. Born in Massachusetts, he worked on railways in the United States and Canada and became a founder of the Phoenix Bridge Company, which built many of the iron bridges of the era. He served as president of the American Society of Civil Engineers and contributed the opening chapters on railway construction and engineering to The American Railway, a collaborative work published by Scribner's in 1889.