" Why this great scientific technology,
and labor-saving makes life easier,
gives us so little happiness? The answer is it is,
simply because we have not learned to use it wisely "
- Albert Einstein.
ANGOSTURA BRIDGE (PART 3)
PAUL LUSTGARTEN. ILLUSTRIOUS GUIANA
Hello and Welcome as always, SOMETHING NEW IN TOURISM .
remember that last week we talked about the three sites originally raised in the technical study for the construction of the Narrows Bridge, stating that the best option for establish bases would be the place called Punta Chacón state of Bolivar and Playa Blanca, in Anzoategui state.
speak on a geological survey summary specifying the materials that make up the ground where they would be the foundations.
all the work is impressive in itself. At the time was a marvel of engineering and it still is, despite the marginalized and the sorry state it is in these moments, for lack of maintenance. Whose responsibility? Well, in my view is for all Guyanese and our neighbors in Soledad, because they simply do not require constant maintenance of the bridge, not a season, but constantly, 365 days a year.
In this way, it would retain a national engineering work, icon of Guyana and the world would, likewise, new sources of employment.
way of thinking, Where is Venezuelan creativity? Where is the initiative of the Guyanese to defend and preserve our historical heritage, cultural sincere manner?
Do we want our city to be respected as a Cultural Heritage of Humanity? Put your hand on your heart and ask our consciousness: Do we really want our city enough to do nothing for her? What would our ancestors Guyanese who gave blood, sweat, tears, wit, freedom and life for our region? "The Liberator of Venezuela, Simón Bolívar, will fall quiet to the grave? "El Libertador de Guayana, Carlos Manuel Piar, will have been executed unjustly after release of the English empire Guiana, in vain? Reflect ...
Similarly, there is a nameless character in many texts, or I should say, in most of the texts that talk about the Narrows Bridge and seemed strange that no mention was made that character in the book ANGOSTURA BRIDGE ON THE RIVER ORINOCO, Ministry of Public Works. Caracas, 1967. is quite unfortunate that many of those who live here do not know who the strongholds that hold the culture, history and progress of our region, our city.
SOMETHING NEW IN TOURISM wants to give due recognition to the designer and driver of this impressive piece of engineering of our Guyana: illustrious son of this land, once ANGOSTURA, ENGINEER PAUL LUSTGARTEN.
Paul Lustgarten. Illustrious Guiana.
Born in Ciudad Bolivar on September 14 in 1928, primary study until sophomore year at the historic Lyceum "Fernando Peñalver" Imagine, when I was located at the headquarters of the House of the Congress of Angostura.
When I was 13 in 1941, his father died. At 18 he moved to Caracas and finished third and fourth year studying at the Liceo "Luis Ezpelosín", then studied the fifth year and graduated from the Liceo Andres Bello, in the city of Caracas. Paul goes to the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) where he studied the first two years of Civil Engineering, but in 1951 closed the university for a year, finishing study in the United States in the RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE New York.
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back to our country began to work at the Ministry of Public Works as Head of the Board of Calculation of Buildings, from 1956 until 1958, when he was chosen to lead the project BRIDGE OVER THE LAKE MARACAIBO.
Bridge on Lake Maracaibo, Zulia State
This bridge was built between 1959 and 1963, four years slow to build, where 3 000 people worked. At the time was the most important work of global engineering, with 9 kilometers long.
Other projects where he was immersed our Guyanese Paul Lustgarten were: BRIDGE ON THE RIVER LEMON, THE VIADUCT JETS IN THE COTA MIL, CARACAS, VIADUCT Turum, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER CARONI; VIADUCT OVER DISCHARGE CANAL GURI; VIADUCT MERIDA, SECOND BRIDGE ON THE ORINOCO , plus another 200 bridges and dozens of buildings and tunnels throughout Venezuela.
Our Guiana is distinguished son of Polish immigrants, who sought in this land to improve living conditions, avoiding the emerging anti-Semitism that ended with Hitler's rise to power and subsequent Holocaust was aimed at exterminating the Jews.
"I have the satisfaction of having contributed to the realization of most of the works major, I was coordinator of the bridge over Lake Maracaibo, worked on the project I bridge over the Orinoco river and did the conceptual design of the Joint Highway System Bridge over the Orinoco River, "recounts renowned Guyanese engineer, who holds the chair of the number XXIII NATIONAL ACADEMY OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE, MATH AND NATURE OF VENEZUELA since 1980.
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