Landmark American Bridges

by Eric Delony

Book Overview

Bridges remain a timely and provocative subject not only in the history of technology and historic preservation, but in engineering, transportation, and urban planning as well. As the single most... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821220365
• ISBN13: 9780821220368
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 11.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up

Customer Reviews

The Industrial Archeologist

Eric Delony has written a wonderful book. It is replete with the photos of our built heritage that few people will realize is valuable until it is long gone. This book is a continuation of Eric Delony's life-long dedication to Industrial Archeology -- a subject that has not received the interest that it deserves. Hopefully we will see more books from Eric on a variety of similar subjects in the future.

Famous to obscure bridges - good overview.

This book provides an excellent overview of American bridge design. I particularly enjoyed the attention paid to little-known but important rural bridges over smaller waterways - a thoughtful review of structures that are ingenius, pragmatic and artful solutions to the problem of getting from point A to point B. The photography is good but could be better.