Bridges
Subtitle: three thousand years of defying nature
By: David J. Brown.
Edition: Rev.
Publisher: Beazley
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Bridges -- Design and construction -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins; title: The Ancient World; title: "Sur le Pont d'Avignon"; title: Renaissance to Enlightenment; title: The Industrial Revolution; title: The Victorian achievement; title: New World, old and new ideas; title: The many shapes of 20th-Century steel; title: Steel suspension bridges; title: The coming of concrete; title: Cable-stayed bridges; title: The state-of-the-art; title: The future.