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Essays on the History of Transportation and Technology.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (426 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781940425030
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Essays on the History of Transportation and TechnologyDDC classification:
  • 627/.1309
LOC classification:
  • T15
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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