TY  - BOOK
AU  - KEMP,Emory L.
AU  - Metz,Lance E.
AU  - Kapsch,Robert J.
TI  - Essays on the History of Transportation and Technology
SN  - 9781940425030
AV  - T15 
U1  - 627/.1309 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Morgantown
PB  - West Virginia University Press
KW  - Technology--History
KW  - Engineering--History
KW  - Transportation--History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The 1859 Wheeling Custom House: A Harbinger of Iron and Steel Skeletal Framing -- Charles Ellet Jr. (1810-1862): Portrait of an Engineer -- A Thoroughfare Through the Howling Wilderness: The Weston &amp -- Gauley Bridge Turnpike -- The Pulaski Skyway-Railway Economic Theory Applied to Superhighway Design -- James Finley and the Origins of the Modern Suspension Bridge -- French Movable Dams in America -- Building the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway -- Benjamin Franklin Thomas and the Introduction of the French Needle Dam into the United States -- John Jervis and the Hydraulic Design of the Old Croton Aqueduct -- The Muskingum Navigation -- French Movable Dams on the Great Kanawha River -- The Little Kanawha Navigation -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors
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