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- catalog abstract ""In his previous books, Henry Petroski has initiated us into the hidden mysteries of such everyday artifacts as the lead pencil, the paper clip, the zipper, and the Post-it note. Now, with Engineers of Dreams, he makes a jump in scale to contemplate those "dry paths" across the rivers and inlets of our cities, those "hard crossings" over the gulches and ravines of our countrysides, those eminently practical but inescapably aesthetic edifices that persist in taking our breath away (when we're not taking them for granted): bridges." "The great era of American bridge building - which from the 1870s through the 1930s gave us such landmarks as the Eads Bridge across the Mississippi, the Hell Gate Bridge across the East River, the George Washington Bridge across the Hudson, and the Golden Gate Bridge at the mouth of San Francisco Bay - called for a special breed of engineer: equal parts dreamer, inventor, and entrepreneur. Since the building of any bridge is necessarily a collaborative effort, engineers of dissimilar philosophies and all-too-similar egos were thrown together on project after project, making for an ongoing, interwoven human and technological drama."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b8202068.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description ""In his previous books, Henry Petroski has initiated us into the hidden mysteries of such everyday artifacts as the lead pencil, the paper clip, the zipper, and the Post-it note. Now, with Engineers of Dreams, he makes a jump in scale to contemplate those "dry paths" across the rivers and inlets of our cities, those "hard crossings" over the gulches and ravines of our countrysides, those eminently practical but inescapably aesthetic edifices that persist in taking our breath away (when we're not taking them for granted): bridges." "The great era of American bridge building - which from the 1870s through the 1930s gave us such landmarks as the Eads Bridge across the Mississippi, the Hell Gate Bridge across the East River, the George Washington Bridge across the Hudson, and the Golden Gate Bridge at the mouth of San Francisco Bay - called for a special breed of engineer: equal parts dreamer, inventor, and entrepreneur. Since the building of any bridge is necessarily a collaborative effort, engineers of dissimilar philosophies and all-too-similar egos were thrown together on project after project, making for an ongoing, interwoven human and technological drama."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Imagine -- Eads -- Cooper -- Lindenthal -- Ammann -- Steinman -- Realize.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-449) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 479 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Engineers of dreams.".
- catalog identifier "0679439390 (hardcover)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Engineers of dreams.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Knopf,".
- catalog relation "Engineers of dreams.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "624/.2/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Bridges United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Bridges United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Civil engineers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "TG23 .P47 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Imagine -- Eads -- Cooper -- Lindenthal -- Ammann -- Steinman -- Realize.".
- catalog title "Engineers of dreams : great bridge builders and the spanning of America / Henry Petroski.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".