Edition |
First Touchstone edition. |
Description |
636 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Series |
A Touchstone book
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Note |
Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1972. |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 603-612. |
Note |
Includes index. |
Summary |
A detailed account of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge providing background on its engineering history as well as the political and social climate of the late-nineteenth century. |
Contents |
The Plan -- Man of Iron -- The Genuine Language of America -- Father and Son -- Brooklyn -- The Proper Person to See -- The Chief Engineer -- All According to Plan -- Down in the Caisson -- Fire -- The Past Catches Up -- How Natural, Right, and Proper -- The Mysterious Disorder -- The Heroic Mode -- At the Halfway Mark -- Spirits of '76 -- A Perfect Pandemonium -- Number 8, Birmingham Gauge -- The Gigantic Spinning Machine -- Wire Fraud -- Emily -- The Man in the Window -- And Yet the Bridge Is Beautiful -- The People's Day. |
Subject |
Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
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ISBN |
067145711X paperback |
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9780671457112 paperback |
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