Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America by Henry Petroski, Edward Kastenmeier

Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America

Henry Petroski, Edward Kastenmeier

496 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative inspiring slow-paced

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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 constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through t...

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