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Franklin F. Snyder
But he developed this idea, and it was published, in the E n g i n e e r i n g N e w s Record.
Of course, it caught on rather rapidly, and I was using it then in converting these
predictions of the runoff from a given amount of rainfall, converting it into a
hydrograph of stream flow and using it in these flood forecasting procedures. I
don't suppose you're interested in them. I've got a copy of them if you.
Q ..
Yes, I think we would be, yes, because this apparently was s o m e very early work
in this area that you were doing, L.K. Sherman in Chicago was doing, that you then
took, and modified, or tweaked a little bit.
A ..
Beg pardon?
Q ..
That you took his work and you modified it, perfected it?
A ..
Well, I published a paper about this time based a lot on the work I had done on the
side in Knoxville on those streams there. I published a paper on synthetic unit
graphs, where you would develop a unit graph for a stream where you didn't have
any records to study. That`s where the name "synthetic" came in, and that's what
got me the job with the Corps of Engineers, eventually. But, well, I diverted to get
the unit hydrograph into the story here. (Note: Sherman called them unit graphs but
we eventually called them unit hydrographs.)
Q ..
No, that's very important because one of the guys in the office asked me this,
specifically to discuss the unit hydrograph with you, so you got me before I got you.
A ..
That paper got me world-wide acclaim. Years later on, when I did a lot of traveling
for the Corps on a lot of international projects, it didn't matter where I went. It was
translated into Russian and other languages. People knew who F. F. Snyder was.
They were always surprised. They expected me to be an old man with whiskers.
Q ..
I was just looking at your vita here trying to get that paper that you mentioned.
Okay. That's the.
With the American Geophysical Union.
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