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Bridges : three thousand years of defying nature
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- Creator
- David J. Brown
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- St. Paul, MN : MBI Publishing, 2001
- Physical Details
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- 176 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780760312346, 0760312346
- OCLC
- ocm49050268
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-171) and index.
- Origins -- The Ancient World -- "Sur le Pont d'Avignon" -- Renaissance to Enlightenment -- The Industrial Revolution -- The Victorian achievement -- New World, old and new ideas -- The many shapes of 20th-Century steel -- Steel suspension bridges -- The coming of concrete -- Cable-stayed bridges -- The state-of-the-art -- The future