| Titre : |
Bridges : three thousand years of defying nature |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
David J. Brown, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Richmond Hill ; New York : Firefly Books |
| Année de publication : |
2005 |
| Importance : |
208 p. |
| Présentation : |
ill. |
| Format : |
26 cm. |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-1-55407-099-2 |
| Note générale : |
Bibliogr. p. 204. - Index |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Mots-clés : |
Bridges -- History
Bridges -- Pictorial works |
| Index. décimale : |
624.21 Ponts en général. Structures, parties, etc. |
| Résumé : |
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.
ajouté anonymement. |
| Note de contenu : |
Summary :
1. Origins
2. The medieval Period
3. Renaissance to enlightenment
4. Bridges of iron and stone: the industrial revolution
5. Brunel and the age of heroic engineering
6. Newworld, old and new ideas
7. The many shapes of twentieth century steel
8. Steel suspension bridges
9. New possibilities in concrete
10. Cable-stayed bridges
11. Fin de siècle
12. The 21 century |
Bridges : three thousand years of defying nature [texte imprimé] / David J. Brown, Auteur . - Richmond Hill ; New York : Firefly Books, 2005 . - 208 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. ISBN : 978-1-55407-099-2 Bibliogr. p. 204. - Index Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Mots-clés : |
Bridges -- History
Bridges -- Pictorial works |
| Index. décimale : |
624.21 Ponts en général. Structures, parties, etc. |
| Résumé : |
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.
ajouté anonymement. |
| Note de contenu : |
Summary :
1. Origins
2. The medieval Period
3. Renaissance to enlightenment
4. Bridges of iron and stone: the industrial revolution
5. Brunel and the age of heroic engineering
6. Newworld, old and new ideas
7. The many shapes of twentieth century steel
8. Steel suspension bridges
9. New possibilities in concrete
10. Cable-stayed bridges
11. Fin de siècle
12. The 21 century |
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