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Bridges

Books covering railroad and railway bridges, trestles and related structures. Also featuring general interest books on bridges and bridge engineering.

There are 10 items in this category

Rails Across the Mississippi : A History of the St. Louis Bridge
Author: Robert W. Jackson
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0252026802

An absorbing tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion, Rails across the Mississippi is the first book-length history since 1881 to document the planning, financing, and construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, a national engineering landmark completed in 1874 that is now known as the Eads Bridge. Robert W. Jackson takes a fresh look at this monumental project, dispersing the myths and filling in the gaps left by earlier scholarship.

Rails across the Mississippi explores how Eads took on the task of building the bridge as he envisioned it and how he met the obstacles presented by his tenacious fidelity to that vision.
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(Added: 7-Oct-2001) - Customer Rating: 7 Votes: 2

The Bridge at Quebec
Author: William D. Middleton
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr; ISBN: 0253337615

It took seven decades, but the dream of the City of Qu??ec for a great railway bridge across the St. Lawrence was finally realized in 1917. More than 80 years later, the Quebec Bridge stands firmly astride the St. Lawrence, safely carrying the commerce of Canada across its broad waters. No one has yet built a longer cantilever span, so the bridge still ranks as the greatest of its kind ever built.

The Bridge at Qu??ec provides a fully illustrated account of the long effort to build a bridge across the St. Lawrence at this difficult site, with particular emphasis on the extraordinary story of the failure of the first bridge, its engineers and their fateful decisions, the terrible collapse of August 29, 1907, and the human tragedies that accompanied it, and the lessons that its story holds even today for engineers and builders as they continue to extend the boundaries of technology
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The Tower and the Bridge
Author: David P. Billington
Publisher: Princeton University Press (December 1, 1985)

David P. Billington is clearly moved by great structures--he means it when he says that major works of structural engineering are like the art of poetry, while architecture is the art of prose. . . . This is a book on structural engineering that sees its subject as part of the larger drama of history and culture, and for the breadth of this stance alone, it is impressive.
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