As much a part of the New York skyline as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge is instantly and internationally recognizable. Yet as iconic as it is, its builder, Washington Roebling, is too often forgotten. The Brooklyn Bridge took 14 dramati…
As much a part of the New York skyline as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge is instantly and internationally recognizable. Yet as iconic as it is, its builder, Washington Roebling, is too often forgotten. The Brooklyn Bridge took 14 dramati…
"Pennington chronicles Wright's life and varied career from country surveyor to chief engineer of the Erie Canal to his early work on America's railroads"--
"Pennington chronicles Wright's life and varied career from country surveyor to chief engineer of the Erie Canal to his early work on America's railroads"--.
"Pennington chronicles Wright's life and varied career from country surveyor to chief engineer of the Erie Canal to his early work on America's railroads"--
"Pennington chronicles Wright's life and varied career from country surveyor to chief engineer of the Erie Canal to his early work on America's railroads"--
The early nineteenth century was a time of great change as the United States transitioned from the colonial era to the industrial age. Benjamin Wright's engineering career spanned the better part of that time from 1790 to 1840.In Benjamin Wright: Father of American Civil Enginee…
His book deals with the simultaneous making of Portuguese engineers and the Portuguese nation-state from the mid seventeenth century to the late twentieth century. It argues that the different meanings of being an engineer were directly dependent of projects of nation building a…
Isambard Kingdom Brunel's (1806-1859) leading role in the transport revolution of the nineteenth century, and especially in the building of the Great Western Railway, left an indelible mark on the British landscape. This book explores his successes and failures, at home and abro…
In this biography of Brunel the author has aimed to make the technical problems of engineering interesting and comprehensible to the layman. He combines with this an appreciation of Brunel's forthright, vigorous and humorous character.
