Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America.

Henry Petroski.

ISBN 10: 0679439390 / ISBN 13: 9780679439394

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1995

About this Item

Gift inscription, some wear, text clean. 19th and 20th century civil engineering projects, especially 1870s-1930s. B/w photos. Popular engineering writer. Dust Jacket condition good. Seller Inventory # 7986

Bibliographic Details

Title: Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders ...

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Good.

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

A history of the great nineteenth- and twentieth-century bridges and the engineers who built them covers James Eads and the Mississippi River Bridge, Othman Ammann and the George Washington Bridge, and others

About the Author:

Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and chairman of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University.