Main entry:

Brown, David J.

Title & Author:

Bridges : three thousand years of defying nature / David J. Brown.

Publication:

Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2005.

Description:

208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
"A Firefly book"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-205) and index.
Chronology of key events: Origins: Structural principles -- Defying gravity: Suspension principle -- Ancient world -- Roman foundations -- Roman aqueducts -- Timeless arches: Rome's greatest stone bridges -- Hidden legacy of China -- Medieval Period: Les Freres du Pont, the Rhone, France -- Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy -- Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic -- Renaissance to enlightenment: Rialto Bridge, Venice, Italy -- Beyond Europe: Asia -- Westminster: New bridge for London, England -- Perronet and the Pont de Neuilly, Paris, France -- Bridges of iron and stone: Industrial Revolution: Romans reborn: Pontcysyllte, Wales -- Spanning the Thames in Masonry: London, England -- Replacing London Bridge, England -- First rigid suspension bridges -- Menai Strait Bridge, Wales -- Grand Pont Suspendu, Fribourg, Switzerland -- Brunel and the age of heroic engineering: Britannia Railway Bridge, Menai Strait, Wales -- Brunel's timber viaducts, England -- Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, England -- Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, England -- Tay Bridge disaster, Scotland -- Forth Rail Bridge, Scotland -- Moving bridges I: Tower Bridge, London England -- New World, old and new ideas: American railroads and trusses -- Wheeling suspension bridge, Ohio River, USA -- Crossing Niagara by train, USA -- James Eads and the St. Louis Bridge, USA -- Brooklyn Bridge, New York, USA -- Many shapes of twentieth century steel: Disaster on disaster: Quebec Bridge, Canada -- Carquinez Strait Bridges, San Francisco, USA -- Howrah River Bridge, Calcutta, India -- Hell Gate Bridge, East River, New York, USA -- Australian and American rivalry: Sydney and New York -- Renaissance of the box-girder, Europe -- Steel suspension bridges: George Washington Bridge, New York, USA -- San Francisco Bay Bridges I, USA -- Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA -- "Galloping Gertie", Washington State, USA -- Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan, USA -- Verrazano Narrows Bridge, New York, USA -- Forth Road Bridge, Scotland -- Tagus Bridge, Portugal -- Severn Bridge, England/Wales -- New possibilities in concrete: Art of Robert Maillart, Switzerland -- Tunckhannock Viaduct, Pennsylvania, USA -- Freyssinet and the Plougastel Bridge, Brittany, France -- Bridge-master of Oregon--Conde McCullough, USA -- Birth of prestressing -- Art of prestressing -- Concrete record-breakers, Australia and Croatia -- Cable-stayed bridges: Lake Maracaibo Bridge, Venezuela -- Alex Fraser Bridge, British Columbia, Canada -- Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, Dartford, England -- Skarnsundet Bridge, Norway -- Variations on a theme -- Art of cable-staying I: 1950s to 1980s -- Fin-de-siecle: New River Gorge Bridge, West Virginia, USA -- Ganter Bridge, Switzerland -- Humber Bridge, England -- Moving bridges II, England to Egypt -- Pont de Normandie, Normandy, France -- Confederation Bridge, Canada -- Honshu-Shikoku Bridges Project, Japan -- Art of Santiago Calatrava, Europe -- Great belt link, Denmark -- Tsing Ma Bridge, Hong Kong, China -- Oresund Bridge: Denmark to Sweden -- Art of cable-staying II: 1990s to 2000s -- Millennium footbridges, London and Gateshead, England -- Twenty-first century: Far-East renaissance I: Lupu Bridge, Shanghai, China -- Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, Boston, USA -- Rion-Antirion Bridge, Greece -- Millau Viaduct, France -- San Francisco Bay Bridges II, USA -- Far-East renaissance II: Stonecutters Bridge, Hong Kong, China -- Strait of Messina, Italy -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

Presents one hundred of the world's most extraordinary bridges from the beginning of time to the 21st century. Features over three hundred illustrations.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1554070996 (pbk.)
9781554070992 (pbk.)

Subject:

Bridges History.
Bridges Pictorial works.
Ponts Histoire.
Ponts Ouvrages illustrés.
Bridges.
Bridges Design and construction History.

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
History.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 240971
Call No.: BIB 170886
Status: Available