In the United States, students of overseas preparatory classes witnessed the great achievements of science and technology in North America and Western Europe and marveled at the rapid development of machinery, trains, ships and telecommunications manufacturing. Some students are pessimistic about the future of China, but Zhan Tianyou firmly said, "In the future, there will be trains and ships in China."
With the belief of studying hard for the prosperity of the motherland, he studied hard and graduated from New Haven with 1877. In May of the same year, he was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering of Yale University, majoring in railway engineering. After four years in college, Zhan Tianyou studied hard, ranking first in the graduation examination with excellent results. Zhan Tianyou studied at Weihafen Elementary School and Nuhafen Middle School in the United States. 1878 completed the middle school course with excellent results. After being admitted to Worcester Institute of Technology, a famous American university of technology, he was successively admitted to the Civil Engineering Department of Yale University to study railway engineering.
188 1 graduated with honors from Yale university in the United States, wrote his graduation thesis "research on wharf cranes", obtained a bachelor's degree, and returned to China in the same year. After returning home, Zhan Tianyou went to Mawei Ship Administration School to study. After the completion, he was sent to the flagship "Yangwei" of Fujian Navy as a gunner to participate in the Mawei naval battle.
After the war, he was transferred to the Huangpu Naval Academy to teach. However, in China at that time, due to the strong opposition of feudal die-hards to the construction of railways, the hero was forced to learn to drive seagoing ships, which lasted for 78 years.
1887, "China Railway Corporation" was established in Tianjin. The following year, he was recommended by Mou, a classmate studying in the United States, and became the first railway engineer in China. Construction of the railway from Tanggu to Tianjin began, and the track-laying project was completed in just over 70 days. Later, he participated in the construction of the railway from Tianjin to Shanhaiguan, and needed to build an iron bridge on the Luanhe River. Faced with the successive failures of British, Japanese and German engineers to build this iron bridge, he resolutely stepped forward and undertook the task of building the bridge, and finally completed all the projects brilliantly.
Zhan Tianyou's greatest contribution in his life was the successful construction of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway. 1905 as chief engineer of Beijing-zhangjia railway. This road runs through Badaling, with a total length of more than 200 kilometers, and the engineering difficulty is unprecedented.
He personally surveyed and selected the route; The east ditch of Beijing Qinglong Bridge adopts herringbone track, and two high-power locomotives turn around and push each other to solve the problem of insufficient traction of large slope locomotives. Together with the workers, we took various measures to solve the difficulties of water seepage and collapse in tunnel engineering, and dug Juyongguan by digging at both ends. The Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway was completed in 1909, two years ahead of schedule, and the total cost was only one-fifth of the price charged by foreign contractors.
After the completion ceremony of Jing-Zhang Railway, he was employed as the Sichuan-Han and Han-Yue Railway Association or the Prime Minister and Chief Engineer. After the Revolution of 1911, Ren Han served as the chief engineer and supervisor of Guangdong-Sichuan Railway Association, and overcame various difficulties to build a 365-kilometer railway from Wuchang to Changsha.
In his later years, he edited and published engineering books such as "Summary of Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway Project" and "Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway Standard Map", and
Bust of Zhan Tianyou.
Huaying Engineering Vocabulary is the earliest dictionary of civil engineering in China. 19 19 died.
The China Institution of Engineers built a bronze statue for Zhan Tianyou, the first president of the Institute, at Qinglongqiao Station to commemorate this outstanding patriotic railway engineer forever. He is also known as "the first person in China Railway".