Transitions in Engineering
Subtitle: Guillaume Henri Dufour and the Early 19th Century Cable Suspension Bridges
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: April 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780817619299
Subjects: Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Bridge Engineering; Engineering - Civil; Suspension bridges; Dufour, Guillaume Henri; 1787-1875; 19th century; Dufour, Guillaume Henri,; History
First sentence: The builders of the first wire cable bridges knew the history of suspension bridge construction only in very general terms, certainly not in the detail we know it today.