Richard L Cleary / Bridges Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks 2007

Description: Bridges (Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks) Author: Richard L. Cleary Title: Bridges (Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks) Publication: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007 Description: Hardcover. New oversized hardcover in new dust jacket. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes glossary, index, photos, diagrams, and CD. 383 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New / New. An account of American bridge design, from familiar monuments to modest structures that offer eloquent statements of problems solved.Bridges are such ubiquitous features of the built environment that we cross most of them barely acknowledging their presence. Certain bridges, however, command attention: for their utility facilitating travel from here to there; for their size, setting, beauty, or historical associations. Ordinary or spellbinding, every bridge is a response to a problem―the spanning of a river or other obstacle, solved more or less elegantly. This visual sourcebook surveys American bridges from coast to coast in terms of four fundamental structural types (beam, arch, truss, and suspension) and the special category of movable bridges (swing, lift, and bascule) showing how similar structural ideas have been addressed by different designers, refined over time, and rendered in various building materials. A special feature is "A Call for Preservation" of the American bridge engineering heritage by Eric DeLony, formerly chief of the Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service. Seller ID: 200272 Subject: Art, STEM The Anthropologists Closet offers a wide variety of non-fiction academic books that are hard to find. We have been in business since 2014. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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