Charles Conrad Schneider

Charles Conrad Schneider (; April 24, 1843 – January 8, 1916), often referred to as C. C. Schneider, was an American civil engineer and bridge designer. Schneider was also a member and president of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Biography Schneider was born in Apolda in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. He graduated from the Royal Technical School at Chemnitz, Germany, in 1864, after which he worked as a mechanical engineer. He emigrated to the United States in 1867, where he worked for the Paterson Locomotive Works in New Jersey for four years before moving to Detroit to work for the Michigan Bridge and Construction Company. In 1875, he went to New York City to help review proposals for the Blackwell's Island Bridge across the East River (which would eventually be completed in 1909 and later came to be known as the Queensboro Bridge). While in New York, he met Charles Macdonald and worked with him for the next year at the Delaware Bridge Company.

He married Katharine Clyde Winters on January 8, 1880. in 1905 and in 1908. About 1910 he ran an engineering office together with Frederick C. Kunz in Philadelphia.

Charles Conrad Schneider died in Philadelphia on January 8, 1916.

Bridges and buildings Niagara Cantilever Bridge, Niagara Falls (New York) / Niagara Falls (Ontario), 1883 CPR Bridge crossing the Fraser River at Cisco (Siska), 1884 Washington Bridge, New York City, 1886 Railway terminal, Jersey City, 1891

Writings General Specifications for Railroad Bridges (1886) General Specifications for Highway Bridges (1901) General Specifications for Structural Steel Work in Buildings (1905; new ed., 1910)