Archibald Milne Hamilton (1898 - 1972) was a New Zealand-born civil engineer, notable for building the Hamilton Road through Kurdistan and designing the Callender-Hamilton bridge system.
He was born in Waimate, New Zealand, the son of W.M. and J.S. Hamilton on 18 November 1898.. He was educated at Waitaki Boys' High School. In 1924 he graduated from Canterbury College with a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) degree.
He married Bettina Matraves Coll...
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Archibald Milne Hamilton (1898 - 1972) was a New Zealand-born civil engineer, notable for building the Hamilton Road through Kurdistan and designing the Callender-Hamilton bridge system.
He was born in Waimate, New Zealand, the son of W.M. and J.S. Hamilton on 18 November 1898.. He was educated at Waitaki Boys' High School. In 1924 he graduated from Canterbury College with a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) degree.
He married Bettina Matraves Collier, a medical doctor in 1934, and they had six children. The second eldest of these was the evolutionary biologist W. D. Hamilton, and one of his daughters Mary R. Bliss, achieved some notability for designing mattresses.
He worked for the Lyttleton Harbour Board, New Zealand where he designed a wave model for planning port improvements, Then he worked at the Admiralty, London, designing the Singapore Naval Base.
Between 1928 and 1932 he was the principal engineer of the Hamilton Road, through Iraqi Kurdistan which he hoped would unite the...
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