Under the Runyang Bridge in Zhenjiang, there is a Mao Yisheng Memorial Hall. In a corner of the hall, there is a study moved from Mao's old Beijing home, a wooden desk, a bamboo and rattan chair and a row of bookcases full of professional books? This study was once a spiritual paradise for him in his later years.
Mao Yisheng was born in 1896. After graduating from high school, Mao Yisheng was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering of Tangshan Institute of Technology. 1965438+After graduation in 2006, he was sent to study in the United States by Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts. 19 17 received a master's degree from Cornell university graduate school, and 19 19 received a doctorate in engineering from Gary Leakey Institute of Technology.
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19 19 12, Mao Yisheng resolutely returned to China. Mao Yisheng said: "Looking back on my study and life, this 14 year effort is like building a bridge, which has built a solid pier for my life."
1March, 933, was invited to build a bridge on Qiantang River. 1937, Qiantang River Bridge was completed and opened to traffic, which is the first double-deck railway and highway bridge designed and built by China. Shortly after opening to traffic, Mao Yisheng was ordered to blow up the bridge to prevent Japanese occupation! Mao Yisheng carried out the order with a keen heart. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to Hangzhou with carefully protected 14 boxes of data to overcome many difficulties and repair the Qiantang River Bridge.
From 1955 to 1957, Mao Yisheng was the chairman of the Technical Advisory Committee of Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, and he accepted the task of building the first bridge across the Yangtze River in China. On September 25th, 1957, the bridge was completed, two years ahead of schedule. It connects Jing-Han Railway and Yue-Han Railway, and becomes the traffic artery running through the north and south of China.
Mao Yisheng studied, built and wrote bridges all his life, and published more than 200 articles in Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals. He presided over the compilation of "Technical History of Ancient Bridges in China" and "Bridges in China-Ancient Times", and wrote "Qiantang River Bridge", which made outstanding contributions to bridge engineering construction in China. 1987 10, Mao Yisheng gloriously joined China. 1989165438+10/2 died.