RARE \"Chairman TVA\" Herbert Vogel Signed 3X4 B&W Photo For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "Chairman TVA" Herbert Vogel Signed 3X4 B&W Photo.

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Herbert D. Vogel, one of the world leaders in professional

engineering and one of the most creative minds in the area of engineering

progress, a retired brigadier general in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a

former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and a former engineer

adviser of the World Bank, died on August 26, 1984, at Walter Reed Army Medical

Center, in Washington, D.C. General Vogel was born in Chelsea, Michigan, in

1900 and lived in Washington, D.C., at the time of his death. After graduating

with a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1924, he obtained

an M.S. in civil engineering from the University of California in 1928, a

doctorate in hydraulic engineering from the Berlin Technical University the

following year, and a professional civil engineering (C.E.) degree from the

University of Michigan in 1933. During World War II, General Vogel served in

the South Pacific. Herbert Vogel married Loreine Elliott, daughter of Mr. and

Mrs. Eugene Elliott of Washington, D.C., on December 23, 1925, while he was

stationed at Fort Humphreys (now Fort Belvoir). Their close and happy marriage

produced two sons, Colonel Herbert Davis Vogel, Jr., and Richard Elliott Vogel.

Colonel Vogel, Jr. (Ret.), is also a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and

is now vice-president of Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Incorporated,

and his brother Richard is an attorney. General and Mrs. Vogel were enjoying

four grandchildren at the time of his death. Mrs. Vogel, a lovely and active

lady, fully supported Herbert in his endeavors for fifty-nine years. Active in

military and professional engineering matters throughout his career, General

Vogel retired from the army in 1954 as division engineer of the U.S. Army Corps

of Engineers' Southwestern Division. During this portion of his career, he

contributed to the control of large waterways by proving and exploiting the

validity of hydraulic models, a contribution that brought about a revolution in

engineering concepts. The use of these models was prompted by the country's

need to find methods of controlling the Mississippi River and its tributaries

to prevent recurrences of the disastrous floods of 1927. Major General Charles

G. Holle (Ret.) stated that General Vogel attended the Berliner Technische

Hochschule, graduating with the degree of doctor of engineering. Next he

followed duty with the Mississippi River Commission in Vicksburg, Mississippi,

to create the U.S. Waterways Experiment Station, which has become so well-known

and highly regarded, worldwide. Full credit of the prestige of the WES is due

to General Vogel having been the first director, 1929–1934, for the sound

establishment and orientation of it, and for his expert counseling as the WES

developed during the subsequent years. Major General K. D. Nichols (Ret.) also

contributed to the facts in this memorial, adding the following: As a result of

his early initiative, Vog combined his intelligence, engineering knowledge,

superior judgment, fierce loyalty to his profession, high professional

standards, sensitivity, and humor to become one of the world's outstanding

hydraulic engineers, respected by his host of friends and associates worldwide.

Once the U.S. Waterways Experiment Station was constructed and in operation,

Vogel and his colleagues opened new areas of research and convinced authorities

of the reasonableness of using new methods and techniques for solving the

problems involved in the control of the Mississippi River and other sizable

waterways. Their work required the use, for the first time, of extensive,

small- scale models of large rivers. Although these models had some vertical

distortion (because a very small horizontal scale had to be used), they were

nevertheless useful for waterway control, and new techniques and methods were

developed through these models that went far beyond the European concepts. Indeed,

the U.S. Waterways Experiment Station has become a model for practical

hydraulic research institutions around the world and is now the most complete

and active installation of its kind anywhere. It has been visited by thousands

of people from all over the globe. In addition, during the past fifty years,

hundreds of problems relating to all parts of the United States and many

foreign countries have been brought to the experiment station for study.

Millions of dollars have been saved as a result of its work, and major

hydraulic structure design improvements have been made. General Vogel was

appointed chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by President Dwight

D. Eisenhower, a position he held until 1963. During his nine years as chairman,

he had executive responsibility for the operation of the largest electric power

system in the United States. During this period, the capacity of the system was

more than doubled; it was supplying electric energy to an area of over eighty

thousand square miles. TVA is responsible for the unified development of

natural resources over an area of forty-one thousand square miles and for the

development of navigation and flood control of the Tennessee River System.

Herbert also served as both president and consulting engineer of the Tennessee

River and Tributaries Association.