Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling

by Richard Haw

Book Overview

John Roebling was one of the nineteenth century's most brilliant engineers, ingenious inventors, successful manufacturers, and fascinating personalities. Raised in a German backwater amid the war-torn chaos of the Napoleonic Wars, he immigrated to the US in 1831, where he became wealthy and acclaimed, eventually receiving a carte-blanche contract to build one of the nineteenth century's most stupendous and daring works of engineering: a gigantic suspension...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190663901
• ISBN13: 9780190663902
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"