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Author | : Michael Hurley |
Publisher | : Raintree |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2012-07-06 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1406227587 |
This series explores the world's most amazing landmarks, using a 'top ten' approach. Looking at landmarks from different continents and diverse cultures, it combines intermediate curriculum (both social studies and visual arts), with high-interest facts.
Author | : Michael Hurley |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1410942384 |
Profiles ten of the world's most distinctive bridges.
Author | : Yolonda Maxwell |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2004-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1435879430 |
This book discusses how math skills are used to calculate materials for the construction of bridges and explains arch bridges, beam bridges, and suspension bridges.
Author | : Charles S. Whitney |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780486429953 |
"A book to delight the heart and eye of a pontist whether he be an admirer and lover of bridges or a designer and builder. . . ."--Saturday Review of LiteratureThis profusely illustrated work describes the fundamental principles involved in the design of bridges, presents the historical background of the modern bridge, and includes a profusion of illustrations documenting bridges of all types. Spans from around the world are depicted, among them Lucerne's medieval Kapellbrücke; the magnificent Maximiliansbrücke in Munich; the unusual "honeycomb" bridge between Orr's Island and Bailey Island off the Maine coast; and the George Washington Bridge, at the time of its construction, the world's longest steel suspension bridge. 401 black-and-white illustrations.
Author | : David Blockley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2012-04-26 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0199645728 |
Bridges are remarkable structures. Often vast, immense, and sometimes beautiful, they can be icons of cities. David Blockley explains how to read a bridge, how they stand up, and how engineers design them to be so strong. He examines the engineering problems posed by bridges, and considers their cultural, aesthetic, and historical importance.
Author | : Bernhard Graf |
Publisher | : Prestel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Bridges |
ISBN | : 9783791334004 |
Profiles over fifty important bridges around the world, presenting color photos and describing their histories; includes such structures as the Brooklyn Bridge, London's Tower Bridge, Venice's Bridge of Sighs, and the beam bridges of Afghanistan.
Author | : Joseph Rogers |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2019-03-15 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 144568442X |
From the world-renowned to the minor and the modest take a look at this lavishly illustrated look at some of Britain's best loved and iconic bridges.
Author | : Donald Conrad Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Bridges and dams are key symbols of civic development, says Jackson and for this reason these two seemingly diverse types of structures have been combined in this book. The descriptions of many of the sites listed here go beyond simple data related to their dates and dimensions. The bridges and dams have been placed in historical contexts that illuminate their technological origins, the nature of their operation or their role in the local region's socioeconomic development. These analyses are designed to demonstrate the significance of these structres in America's history. ISBN 0-89133-129-8 (pbk.): $16.95 (For use only in the library).
Author | : Marcus Binney |
Publisher | : Pimpernel Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-09-21 |
Genre | : Bridges |
ISBN | : 9781910258170 |
Building bridges across rivers, canyons, straits and sea represents one of man's greatest endeavours. It has stretched human ingenuity, engineering and material technology to their utmost limits. Their creation has been driven by man's desire, from the earliest times, to make lines of communication possible by foot, horse or engine. Bridges have altered history by joining communities together, extending trade and transporting water to villages and cities. Some are of breathtaking beauty and it is little wonder that they rank among the world's most admired structures. As Marcus Binney writes, 'Each one is remarkable in its own way, each a response to a challenge and perhaps the realization of a dream.' This book looks at more than two hundred bridges spanning the world and the centuries. Here you will find, amongst others, an Inca suspension bridge made from grass ropes; the mile-long Roman aqueduct at Caesarea; the bridges of Venice; France's famous Millau Viaduct; the doubledecker, transporter, lift and stilt bridges produced by German precision engineering; Spain's Acueducto del Aguila (glowing in a bright livery of yellow and terracotta red); the awe-inspiring cantilever bridges built by railway engineers across major rivers in North America and India, and the world's longest suspension bridge at Kobe in Japan.
Author | : Judith Dupré |
Publisher | : Black Dog & Leventhal |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0316473804 |
From New York Times best-selling author Judith Dupréomes a revised and updated edition of Bridges, her magnificent chronological tour of the world's most significant and eye-popping spans. Covering thousands of years of architectural history, each bridge is gorgeously photographed "elevating the landmarks from mode of transportation to works of art" (Bustle). Technological advances, structural daring, and artistic vision have propelled the evolution of bridge design around the world. This visual history of the world's landmark bridges has been thoroughly revised andupdated since its initial publication twenty-five years ago, and now showcases well-known classics as well as modern innovators. Bridges featured include: The Brooklyn Bridge (New York) Dany and-Kunshan Grand Bridge (China) Gateshead Millennium Bridge (England) The Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco) Zakim Bridge (Boston) Including all-new photographs and the latest cutting edgework from today's international superstars of architecture and engineering, Bridges covers two-thousand years of technological and aesthetic triumphs, making it the most thorough, authoritative, and gorgeous book on the subject-as dramatic in presentation as the structures it celebrates. Breathtaking photographs capture the bridges' details as well as their monumental scale; architectural drawings and plans invite you behind the scenes as new bridges take shape; and lively commentary on each structure explores its importance and places it in historical context. Throughout, informative profiles, features, and statistics make Bridges an invaluable reference as well as a visual feast.