Eric DeLony

Eric DeLony (1944–2018) served as chief of the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) from 1971 to 2003 and was a noted historic preservationist.

He was a professional engineering and industrial heritage consultant with a particular interest in the preservation of historic bridges.

[1] He received the General Tools Award, the highest award of the Society for Industrial Archeology, in 2000.

[2][3] DeLony graduated from the Ohio State University in 1968.

Eric DeLony (1944–2018) at work in 1985, documenting an 1870 pony truss bridge in Pennsylvania for that state's historic bridge preservation program.