Screen LibraryBridges：three thousand years of defying nature
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| Published: |
Beazley,
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| Publisher Address: | London |
| Publication Dates: | 1996, c1993. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Rev. |
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| Carrier Form: | 176 p.: ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1857321634 |
| Index Number: | TU |
| CLC: |
TU-88 U44 |
| Call Number: | U44/B877 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Origins -- The Ancient World -- "Sur le Pont d'Avignon" -- Renaissance to Enlightenment -- The Industrial Revolution -- The Victorian achievement -- New World, old and new ideas -- The many shapes of 20th-Century steel -- Steel suspension bridges -- The coming of concrete -- Cable-stayed bridges -- The state-of-the-art -- The future. |