{{Infobox person | name = Edward S. Shaw | birth_date = October 26, 1853 | death_date = {{Death date and age|1919|10|3|1853|10|26}} | years_active = 1874 – c. 1917 | birth_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts, US | death_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts, US | resting_place = Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts | occupation = {{hlist|Civil engineer|mechanical engineer}} | alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology <small>(B.S.)</small> | signature = EdwardSargentShaw_Signature.svg }}
'''Edward Sargent Shaw''' (October 26, 1853<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613172111/http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=%3A3239714&id=I26084|archive-date=13 June 2017|title=McClellan, Tilles, Lick 3|website=RootsWeb WorldConnect Project|publisher=RootsWeb.com, Inc.|access-date=13 June 2017|url=http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3239714&id=I26084|url-status=dead}} </ref> – October 3, 1919<ref>{{cite news | editor-last = Bean | editor-first = James W. | date = 17 March 1886 | title = Funeral of Edward S. Shaw | url = http://cambridge.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/cambridge?a=d&d=Chronicle19191011-01.2.34&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- | work = The Cambridge Chronicle | department = Old Cambridge | location = Cambridge, Massachusetts | quote = Funeral services were held Sunday at 3 p.m. for Edward S. Shaw, of 10 Kirkland street, one of Cambridge's oldest residents, who died last week Friday of heart failure. The services were held from his late home and Rev. Dr. Samuel M. Crothers, pastor of the First church, Unitarian, officiated. Interment was in Mount Auburn Cemetery. Mr. Shaw was 65 years of age and had lived all his life in Cambridge. He was educated in the Cambridge schools and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For many years he did business in Boston as a consulting and civil engineer, but for the past few years he had been practically retired from business. He leaves no immediate survivors. | page = 4 | access-date = 13 June 2017 }}</ref>) was a prominent civil engineer who lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<ref name=JournalMemberDeaths>{{cite journal|journal=Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers|title=Proceedings|date=October 1919|volume=6|issue=8|page=7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l7ASAAAAYAAJ&q=edward+s+shaw+civil+engineer&pg=RA1-PA95|access-date=14 June 2012}}</ref><ref name=HAERp10>{{cite web|last=Bennett|first=Lola|title=Schell Memorial Bridge, HAER No. MA-111|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhdatapage&fileName=ma/ma1400/ma1429/data/hhdatapage.db&recNum=9&itemLink=r?ammem/hh:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28MA1429%29%29|work=Historic American Engineering Record|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=14 June 2012|page=10|date=August 1990}}</ref> Born on October 26, 1853, he spent most of his life in Cambridge, and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in the class of 1874; his thesis being a design for a Murphy-Whipple truss bridge.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Runkle |editor-first=J.D. |date=September 1874 |title=President's Report for the Year Ending Sept. 30, 1874 |url=https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/mithistory/presidents-reports/1874.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110621051350/https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/mithistory/presidents-reports/1874.pdf |archive-date= 21 June 2011|location=Boston |publisher=A.A. Kingman; Massachusetts Institute of Technology |page=31 |editor-link=John Daniel Runkle }}</ref> Immediately following graduation he continued his studies in some non-degree capacity at his alma mater.<ref>''Ibid'', p. 204.</ref> During his professional career, his office was located in Boston, Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Engineering News and American Railway Journal|volume=36|issue=27|page=iii|date= July 1896|title=Engineering News Directory of Engineers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KtBBAQAAIAAJ&q=%22edward+s+shaw%22+civil+engineer&pg=RA2-PR3|access-date=14 June 2012}}</ref> He died of heart failure at the age of 65, on October 3, 1919.<ref name=JournalMemberDeaths/>
Shaw was responsible for a number of bridges in New England, including: *Bennett's Meadow Bridge, Northfield, Massachusetts *Schell Bridge, Northfield, Massachusetts *Shelburne Falls Bridge, Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts *Willimansett Bridge, Willimansett, Chicopee, Massachusetts
Shaw also held at least 3 patents, including one for the draw bridge, one for a railway superstructure design, and even a design for an electric locomotive. It is unknown if these designs were implemented in any capacity in his work. :* {{cite patent | country = United States | number = 159,046 | status = Patent | title = Improvement in Joints for Iron Truss-Bridges | pubdate = | gdate = January 6, 1875 | fdate = January 26, 1875 | pridate = | inventor = Edward S. Shaw | invent1 = | invent2 = | assign1 = | assign2 = | class = | url = https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US159046.pdf }} :* {{cite patent | country = United States | number = 361,029 | status = Patent | title = Elevated Railway Superstructure | pubdate = | gdate = April 12, 1887 | fdate = January 17, 1887 | pridate = | inventor = Edward S. Shaw | invent1 = | invent2 = | assign1 = | assign2 = | class = | url = https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US361029.pdf }} :* {{cite patent | country = United States | number = 367,069 | status = Patent | title = Electric Locomotive | pubdate = | gdate = July 26, 1887 | fdate = June 3, 1886 | pridate = | inventor = Edward S. Shaw | invent1 = | invent2 = | assign1 = | assign2 = | class = | url = https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US564164.pdf
}} :* {{cite patent | country = United States | number = 564,164 | status = Patent | title = Bascule or Tilting Bridge | pubdate = | gdate = July 14, 1896 | fdate = June 7, 1895 | pridate = | inventor = Edward S. Shaw | invent1 = | invent2 = | assign1 = | assign2 = | class = | url = https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US564164.pdf
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