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100 1 _aKEMP, Emory L.
245 1 0 _aEssays on the History of Transportation and Technology.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aMorgantown :
_bWest Virginia University Press,
_c2014.
264 4 _c©2014.
300 _a1 online resource (426 pages)
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
505 0 _aIntro -- 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aTechnology--History.
650 0 _aEngineering--History.
650 0 _aTransportation--History.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aMetz, Lance E.
700 1 _aKapsch, Robert J.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aKEMP, Emory L.
_tEssays on the History of Transportation and Technology
_dMorgantown : West Virginia University Press,c2014
_z9781938228810
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3417056
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