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Language: en
Pages: 654
Authors: David McCullough
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-06 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. Winning acclaim for its comprehensive loo
Engineers of Dreams
Language: en
Pages: 715
Authors: Henry Petroski
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-15 - Publisher: Vintage

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Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America's great bridges, particularly those construc
Brooklyn Bridge
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Alan Trachtenberg
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1979-07-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Fourteen of Walker Evans's evocative photographs of Brooklyn Bridge, most of which have never been published, appear in this edition of Alan Trachenberg's Brook
Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Hildegarde Hoyt Swift
Categories: Juvenile fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-02-29 - Publisher: Turtleback Books

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A little lighthouse on the Hudson River regains its pride when it finds out that it is still useful and has an important job to do.
The Brooklyn Bridge
Language: en
Pages: 60
Authors: Elizabeth Mann
Categories: Bridges
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Mikaya Press

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Describes the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, from its conception by John Roebling in 1852 through, after many setbacks, its final completion under the dir