Remaking the World
Subtitle: Adventures in Engineering
Publisher: Vintage
Published: December 29, 1998
Place of publication: Vintage Books, a division of Random House
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780375700248
First sentence: When I was an engineering student, a friend of a friend nicknamed me "Steinmetz" and refused to call me by any other name.
Table of contents: title: Images of an engineer; title: Alfred Nobel's prizes; title: Henry Martyn Robert; title: James Nasmyth; title: On the backs of envelopes; title: Good drawings and bad dreams; title: Failed promises; title: In context; title: Men and women of progress; title: Soil mechanics; title: Is technology wired?; title: Harnessing steam; title: The Great Eastern; title: Driven by economics; title: The Panama Canal; title: The Ferris wheel; title: Hoover Dam; title: The Channel Tunnel; title: The Petronas towers