Willibald Trinks

1874–1966 (age 92)

Biography

Willibald Trinks, born in 1874, became a celebrated engineer and educator whose teaching in metallurgy and mechanical design shaped generations of builders.

He measured success not only in patents but in the students who carried his exacting standards forward, and visitors to Sewickley Cemetery honor a scholar who embodied quiet rigor.

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