Engineers of dreams : great bridge builders and the spanning of America / Henry Petroski.
Engineers of dreams : great bridge builders and the spanning of America / Henry Petroski.
Engineers of dreams : great bridge builders and the spanning of America / Henry Petroski.
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Publisher
New York : Knopf, 1995.
Date
1995.
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N624.20973/1
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English
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Physical content
xi, 479 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Publisher
New York : Knopf, 1995.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1995.
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The great era of American bridge building - which from the 1870s through the 1930s gave us such landmarks as the Eads Bridge across the Mississippi, the Hell Gate Bridge across the East River, the George Washington Bridge across the Hudson, and the Golden Gate Bridge at the mouth of San Francisco Bay - called for a special breed of engineer: equal...
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Engineers of dreams : great bridge builders and the spanning of America / Henry Petroski.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-449) and index.
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N624.20973/1
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74VMxQAGD7ey
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMxQAGD7ey
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ISBN
0679439390 (hardcover)
9780679439394 (hardcover)
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624.20973
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991002806589702626
