Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1074013583
THE GREAT EAST RIVER BRIDGE.
Anonim
The Great East River Bridge
The Great East River Bridge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Great East River Bridge book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Great East River Bridge, 1883-1983
Brooklyn Museum
Author : Brooklyn Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015006055621
The Great East River Bridge, 1883-1983 by Brooklyn Museum Pdf
A Complete History of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Bridges
ISBN : HARVARD:32044084558147
A Complete History of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge by Anonim Pdf
The Great East River Bridge, 1883-1983
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Bridges
ISBN : 0295962852
The Great East River Bridge, 1883-1983 by Anonim Pdf
Report of the Chief Engineer of the New York & Brooklyn Bridge
Washington Roebling
Author : Washington Roebling
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Report of the Chief Engineer of the New York & Brooklyn Bridge by Washington Roebling Pdf
A hero of the Battle of Gettysburg and a veteran of many other American Civil War battles, Washington Roebling assumed the duties of Chief Engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge only a few short years after the war ended. This report was written by Roebling and his staff six years before the completion of the famous bridge. It contains fascinating details about the construction methods, material selection, and materials testing that are easily understood by any lay person. Roebling suffered a debilitating injury from decompression sickness due to time spent deep in the bridge's caissons. His wife Emily was essential in helping him finish the project while viewing it from his apartment windows. She was a critical link between her husband and his engineers on the construction site, as well as helping him write reports. For the first time, this long-out-of-print book is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.
The Great Bridge
David McCullough
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743217378
The Great Bridge by David McCullough Pdf
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 look at the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, this book helped cement David McCullough's reputation as America's preeminent social historian. Now, The Great Bridge is reissued as a Simon & Schuster Classic Edition with a new introduction by the author. This monumental book brings back for American readers the heroic vision of the America we once had. It is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our nation's history during the Age of Optimism -- a period when Americans were convinced in their hearts that all great things were possible. In the years around 1870, when the project was first undertaken, the concept of building a great bridge to span the East River between the great cities of Manhattan and Brooklyn required a vision and determination comparable to that which went into the building of the pyramids. Throughout the fourteen years of its construction, the odds against the successful completion of the bridge seemed staggering. Bodies were crushed and broken, lives lost, political empires fell, and surges of public emotion constantly threatened the project. But this is not merely the saga of an engineering miracle: it is a sweeping narrative of the social climate of the time and of the heroes and rascals who had a hand in either constructing or obstructing the great enterprise. Amid the flood of praise for the book when it was originally published, Newsday said succinctly "This is the definitive book on the event. Do not wait for a better try: there won't be any."
Pneumatic Tower Foundations of the East River Suspension Bridge
Washington Augustus Roebling
Author : Washington Augustus Roebling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Bridges
ISBN : HARVARD:32044091940940
Pneumatic Tower Foundations of the East River Suspension Bridge by Washington Augustus Roebling Pdf
Cable-making for Suspension Bridges
Wilhelm Hildenbrand
Author : Wilhelm Hildenbrand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : UCAL:$B259535
Cable-making for Suspension Bridges by Wilhelm Hildenbrand Pdf
Concise Description of the East River Bridge
E. F. Farrington
Author : E. F. Farrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : OCLC:886935228
Concise Description of the East River Bridge by E. F. Farrington Pdf
The Great Bridge
David McCullough
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451683233
The Great Bridge by David McCullough Pdf
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Truman evaluates the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge as the greatest engineering triumph of its time, citing the pivotal contributions of chief engineer Washington Roebling and the technical problems and political corruption that challenged the project.
Brooklyn Bridge
Alan Trachtenberg
Author : Alan Trachtenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1979-07-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780226811154
Brooklyn Bridge by Alan Trachtenberg Pdf
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 Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol. In the new afterword Trachenberg explores the history of Hart Crane's The Bridge, especially the poem's integral relationship with the powerful photography of Evans. "[Brooklyn Bridge] is familiar in so many movies, in so many stage sets and, as Mr. Trachtenberg shows in this brilliant . . . book, it is at least as much a symbol as a reality. . . . Mr. Trachtenberg is always exciting and illuminating."—Times Literary Supplement "The book is a skillful and insightful synthesis of materials about Brooklyn Bridge from such diverse fields as history, engineering, literature and art. Essentially it asks the question of why Brooklyn Bridge achieved such great impact on the nineteenth century American imagination and why it has continued to have a significant impact on twentieth century art and literature. In addition to its exploration of the bridge's symbolic significance, which includes perceptive analyses of such particular works as Hart Crane's great poem cycle and the paintings of artists like Joseph Stella, the book also includes a solidly researched account of the conception, planning and construction of the bridge. Trachtenberg's account of the intellectual and cultural sources of the bridge is particularly fascinating in its demonstration of the convergence of many different philosophical and ideological currents of the time around this great engineering enterprise, illustrating as effectively as any discussion I know the complex interplay of ideas and material culture."—John G. Cawelti, University of Chicago "Alan Trachtenberg's Brooklyn Bridge is a fascinating story, the philosophic genesis of the idea in Europe, John Roebling's heroic effort to translate it into masonry and steel, and the meanings that Americans attached to the physical object as an emblem of their aspirations."—Leo Marx, Amherst College, author of The Machine in the Garden
The Brooklyn Bridge
Elaine Pascoe
Author : Elaine Pascoe
Publisher : Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1567111734
The Brooklyn Bridge by Elaine Pascoe Pdf
A history of the Brooklyn Bridge with an emphasis on the basic architecture, engineering, and mechanical procedures of construction.
The New York and Brooklyn Bridge
Alfred C. Barnes
Author : Alfred C. Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Bridges
ISBN : HARVARD:32044091915199
The New York and Brooklyn Bridge by Alfred C. Barnes Pdf
The Brooklyn Bridge
Richard Haw
Author : Richard Haw
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : 0813535875
The Brooklyn Bridge by Richard Haw Pdf
"Bringing together more than sixty images of the bridge that, over the years, have graced postcards, magazine covers, and book jackets and appeared in advertisements, cartoons, films, and photographs, Haw traces the diverse and sometimes jarring ways in which this majestic structure has been received, adopted, and interpreted as an American idea. Haw's account is not a history of how the bridge was made, but rather of what people have made of the Brooklyn Bridge - in film, music, literature, art, and politics - from its opening ceremonies to the blackout of 2003."--BOOK JACKET.
A Picture History of the Brooklyn Bridge
Mary J. Shapiro
Author : Mary J. Shapiro
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486319230
A Picture History of the Brooklyn Bridge by Mary J. Shapiro Pdf
Profusely illustrated account of the greatest engineering achievement of the 19th century. Rare contemporary photos and engravings and accompanying detailed captions recall construction, human drama, politics, much more. 167 black-and-white illustrations.
