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Bridges : Three Thousand Years of Defying Nature
David J. Brown

Bridges : Three Thousand Years of Defying Nature

Mitchell Beazley (Jan 2001)
9780760312346
| Softcover
176 pages | 229 x 279 mm

Genre

  • World General

Subject

  • Architectural & Industrial Photography
  • Bridge Architecture
  • History

Plot

This stunning visual presentation, filled with photographs and illustrations depicting the world's greatest bridges, explains the manners in which laborers, engineers and architects have surmounted the problem of spanning the seemingly impassable from ancient times to the 21st century. A brilliantly written text explains in understandable terms the physics of different bridge types, while fascinating histories describe the "hows" and "whys" behind the world's most recognizable structures.

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