Elmer K. Timby; Engineer Worked on Golden Gate Bridge

Elmer K. Timby, 86, an engineer whose projects included the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge in New York. Timby, an engineering professor at Princeton University until his retirement in 1949, also helped construct and design the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the New Jersey and West Virginia turnpikes, the Delaware Memorial Bridge, Miami International Airport, and the Hampton Roads Tunnel-Bridge Highway Crossing linking Virginia and Maryland. As a naval officer during World War II, he helped design floating dry-docks that were so huge they had to be turned on their sides to go through the Panama Canal. In Langhorne, Pa., Oct. 28 of pneumonia.