Engineers of dreams [online resource] : great bridge builders and the spanning of America

• Tác giả: Henry Petroski
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0307773132
• ISBN-13: 978-0307773135
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 624.20973 Bridges
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : Vintage Books, 1995
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (430 p.) : , ill.
• Bộ sưu tập: Khoa học ứng dụng
• ID: 94810
• Chủ đề: 1. Bridges--History--19th century--United States; 2. Bridges--History--20th century--United States; 3. Civil engineers--United States

Includes bibliographical references.

Tóm tắt

The story behind the era of American bridge building, from the 1870s to the 1930s, looking at the engineers who designed them and the professional, economic, political, and personal conflicts that occurred in the course of the bridges being built.