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Stephen Harriman Long, a Common card
Stephen Harriman Long was a United States Army officer, topographical engineer, civil engineer, and inventor whose career spanned military engineering, scientific exploration, federally sponsored internal improvements, and the early development of American railroads and bridge engineering.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 78
- Power
- 150
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 150 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is best known for leading federal exploratory expeditions in the trans-Mississippi West between 1817 and 1823, including the 1820 reconnaissance of the Great Plains that contributed to the contemporary characterization of portions of the region as the “Great Desert.” From the mid-1820s onward, Long played a significant role in federally authorized surveys under the General Survey Act and in…
- His railroad work formed part of a broader pattern in which Army engineers applied military engineering and administrative practices to early transportation systems.
- In 1830, he patented the Long truss, a timber bridge system subsequently refined through additional patents in 1836 and 1839, the resulting sequence of designs combined adjustable compression bracing with early analytical proportioning of members and is treated by historians as an early American application of analytical methods in structural engineering.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Stephen Harriman Long article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 78: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Stephen Harriman Long (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Charles Willson Peale, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.