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  • Formaat: Other book format, 608 pages, kaal: 1 g, Illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2001
  • Kirjastus: Simon & Schuster
  • ISBN-10: 0743217373
  • ISBN-13: 9780743217378
  • Formaat: Other book format, 608 pages, kaal: 1 g, Illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2001
  • Kirjastus: Simon & Schuster
  • ISBN-10: 0743217373
  • ISBN-13: 9780743217378
A detailed account of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge provides background information on its engineering history as well as the political and social climate of the late nineteenth century.

A detailed account of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge providing background on its engineering history as well as the political and social climate of the late-nineteenth century. Reissue. 10,000 first printing.

Introduction 9(4)
Author's Note 13(8)
PART ONE
The Plan
21(17)
Man of Iron
38(23)
The Genuine Language of America
61(22)
Father and Son
83(18)
Brooklyn
101(18)
The Proper Person to See
119(21)
The Chief Engineer
140(29)
PART TWO
All According to Plan
169(21)
Down in the Caisson
190(19)
Fire
209(17)
The Past Catches Up
226(20)
How Natural, Right, and Proper
246(20)
The Mysterious Disorder
266(20)
The Heroic Mode
286(17)
PART THREE
At the Halfway Mark
303(14)
Spirits of' 76
317(15)
A Perfect Pandemonium
332(16)
Number 8, Birmingham Gauge
348(26)
The Gigantic Spinning Machine
374(20)
Wire Fraud
394(17)
Emily
411(26)
The Man in the Window
437(25)
And Yet the Bridge Is Beautiful
462(20)
The People's Day
482(18)
Epilogue 500(19)
Appendix 519(4)
Notes 523(42)
Picture Credits 565(2)
Bibliography 567(12)
Index 579