Author: Cleary, Richard L.
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Bridges (Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : April 2007
Seller ID: 329783
ISBN-13: 9780393731361
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Bridges are such ubiquitous features of the built environment that we cross most of them barely acknowledging their presence. Certain bridges, however, command attention: for their utility facilitating travel from here to there; for their size, setting, beauty, or historical associations. Ordinary or spellbinding, every bridge is a response to a problem--the spanning of a river or other obstacle, solved more or less elegantly. This visual sourcebook surveys American bridges from coast to coast in terms of four fundamental structural types (beam, arch, truss, and suspension) and the special cat...
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