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Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
Henry Petroski
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| #918235 in Books | Vintage | 1996-10-29 | 1996-10-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.02 x1.06 x5.21l,1.03 | File type: PDF | 479 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Fun read|By Customer|Great book with lots of detailed history. A little long on some stories, though|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By joe godwin|excellent author great book|9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Bridges to an American past|.com |Henry Petroski's lyrical history of bridge builders in America is organized around five engineers: James Eads (inventor of the diving bell, which bridged Mississippi at St. Louis); Theodore Cooper (railroad bridge engineer and designer of the ill-fated Q
Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who built the St. Louis, the George Washington, and the Golden Gate bridges, drawing not only on their mastery of numbers but on their gifts for persuasion and self-promotion. It is...
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