dam sites in Monterey County, California. Fish also did railway work and from 1900 thru 1909 worked on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway; first as a resident engineer and then in 1907-09 as a division engineer. Bibliography Lettering of Working Drawings, New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1894. The Transition Curve: by offsets and by deflection angles.J. Wiley & sons, (1899) Mathematics of the Paper Location of a Railroad, (1905) Coordinates of elementary surveying. The author, 1909. Earth Work Haul and Overhaul Including Economic Distribution (1913) Engineering Economics, First Principles 1st edition, (1915) which was the leading text for the next 20 years. Fish completely rewrote the second edition in 1923 which proved to be more significant than his first. The Engineering Profession (1941) The Engineering Method (1950) Legacy Fish was a lifelong member of the American society of civil engineers and the American railway engineering association. Contributions to engineering economics Fish's contributions to engineering economics in the form of his book Engineering Economics: First Principles (1915, 1923) provided the critical bridge between the pioneering effort of Arthur M. Wellington in his work of the 1870s on the Economic location of railways and Eugene L. Grant's work on Principles of Engineering Economy in the 1930s. Fish wrote that "Every engineering structure, with few exceptions, is first suggested by economic requirements; and the design of every part, excepting few, and of the whole is finally judged from the economic standpoint. It is therefore apparent that the so-called principles of design are subordinate to the principles which underlie economic judgment." Fish wrote his text based upon his belief that to the civil engineer, "... working knowledge of first principles is as essential in the economics as in the mechanics' of structures." He also acknowledged influences such as Wellington's Economic theory of railway location (1886); Waddell's DePontibus," Horatio Alvah Foster's (1858-1913) "Engineering Valuation of Public Utilities and Factories," Halbert Powers Gillette's "Cost Data" and Henry Floy's "Valuation of Public Utility Properties". Fish defined engineering economics primarily concerned with matters of economic selection and structure. Fish defined economic selection as a choice based solely upon a "long-run least cost." In modern engineering terminology, meeting a requirement implies some "sort of instrument which... will perform the service" John Charles Lounsbury Fish is also the author of the coordinates of elementary surveying, a book that was first published in 1909. See also Engineering Economics