Essays on the history of transportation and technology
By: Emory L. Kemp [and others] ; foreword by Lance E. Metz ; introduction by Robert J. Kapsch
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781938228810
Subjects: Technology; Engineering; Transportation; History
Description: "Essays on the history of transportation and technology"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "Previous versions of many of these essays appeared in Canal History and Technology Proceedings, Volumes X, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXIX, and XXX"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The 1959 Wheeling Custom House: a harbinger of iron and steel skeletal framing; title: Charles Ellet Jr., (1810-1862): portrait of an engineer; title: A thoroughfare through the howling wilderness: the Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike / Emory L. Kemp and Janet K. Kemp; title: The Pulaski Skyway-Railway economic theory applied to superhighway design / Dara Callender and Emory Kemp; title: James Finley and the origins of the modern suspension bridge; title: French movable dams in America; title: Building the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway; title: Benjamin Franklin Thomas and the introduction of the French needle dam into the United States; title: John Jervis and the hydraulic design of the old Croton Aqueduct / Emory Kemp and Edward Winant; title: The Muskingum Navigation; title: French movable dams on the Great Kanawha River; title: The Little Kanawha Navigation / Larry Sypolt and Emory Kemp.