Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. “This book tells the stories of engineers who have dreamed and engineers who have toiled, of bridges of celebrity and bridges of burden, and it is about the nature of technology in human context.” (Preface Pg. 1) Henry Petroski (1942-2023) is not interested in delivering a dry textbook explanation implying that some of the greatest bridges in America were just..... More
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