Henry Sylvester Jacoby (born 1857, died 1955) was an American educator, born at

Springtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Springtown is an unincorporated community in Springfield Township in extreme northern Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located at the junction of Routes 212 and 412 and is drained by the Cooks Creek east into the Delaw ...

, He was graduated from

Lehigh University Lehigh University (LU) is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The university was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer and was originally affiliated with the Epi ...

in 1877 and during the season of 1878 was connected with the topographical corps of the

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. During 1879–85, he was chief draftsman in the United States Engineer's Office in Memphis, Tenn. In 1886, he returned to Lehigh, where until 1890 he was instructor of civil engineering; he then accepted a call to

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, where in 1897 he became

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of bridge engineering. Professor Jacoby was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 1901 presided over the Section on Engineering, with the rank of vice-president, and was president of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education in 1915–16. Besides numerous papers on his specialty of bridge engineering, he was the author of: * ''Notes and Problems in Descriptive Geometry'' (1892) * ''Outlines of Descriptive Geometry'' (Part I, 1895; 2, 1896; 3, 1897) *
Text-Book in Plain Lettering
' (1897) with Mansfield Merriman * ''Text Book on Roofs and Bridges'' (1890-8) with R. P. Davis *
Foundations of Bridges and Buildings
' (1914) with Roland Parker Davis * ''Structural Details, or Elements of Design in Timber Framing'' (1919)

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