Bridges
Subtitle: Three Thousand Years of Defying Nature
Publisher: MBI
Published: November 12, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780760312346
Subjects: Architectural structure & design; Architecture; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; History; Design & Drafting; Engineering - Civil; History - General; Architectural & Industrial; Antiques & Collectibles / Americana; Bridges; Design and construction
First sentence: We cannot of course know when, where or how man first used a bridge, but many of our earliest hunter-gatherer ancestors must surely have had to range far and wide in their quests for food, fuel or shelter; and inevitably they must have encountered natural obstacles such as streams, rivers and chasms.