BridgesA story of famous bridges, the men who designed and built them, and the problems of their construction. The book focuses on three types of bridges: steel arch, cantilever, and suspension. |
Contents
Where the Road Meets the River | 9 |
A Continent without Bridges | 15 |
Wagon Bridges 18001860 | 25 |
Copyright | |
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1817 LIBRARIES abutments anchorage automobile Bay Bridge Bayonne Bridge beam bridge design bridge engineers bridgebuilding material Brooklyn Bridge building cables caisson cantilever bridge carrying capacity cars century CHIGAN completed compression construction cross dead weight deck Eads East River Ellet erection feet ferry George Washington Bridge Golden Gate Bridge heavy Hell Gate arch highway history of bridgebuilding Hudson hundred Jersey John Roebling live load locomotive long-span bridges main span Manhattan masonry MICHIGAN MICHIGAN miles million Mississippi modern bridge motorist mountain National Pike Ohio pier plans POUNDS Quebec Bridge railroad road roadway rock Roebling Roebling's San Francisco shape span length SQUARE INCH Squire Whipple stands steel arches Steinman stiffening truss stone arches stone bridges stress structural steel substructure suspension bridge tensile strength tension Theodore Burr tion tons towers traffic truss bridges tunnels UNIV UNIVERSITY vehicles wagons Wheeling wind wire wooden bridge wrought iron York