Title Construction : building the impossible / Nathan Aaseng.

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Minneapolis, Minn. : Oliver Press, 2000.

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Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Children's Department	J 624.09 AASENG	Check Shelf

Description	144 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	Innovators
	Innovators.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-138) and index.
Summary	Profiles eight builders and their famous construction projects, including Imhotep and the Step Pyramid, Alexandre Eiffel and the Eiffel Tower, and William Lamb and the Empire State Building.
Contents	Reconstructing the great builders -- Imhotep and the Step Pyramid -- Marc Brunel and the Thames Tunnell -- John and Washington Rooebling and the Brooklyn Bridge -- Alexandre Gustave Eiffel and the Eiffel Tower -- George W. Goethals and the Panama Canal -- Frank Crowe and the Hoover Dam -- William Lamb and the Empire State Building -- Modern wonders built upon the past.
Subject	Civil engineering -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Civil engineers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Civil engineering.
	Building.
	Buildings.
	Civil engineers.
	Civil engineering. (OCoLC)fst00862488
	Civil engineers. (OCoLC)fst00862533
	Civil engineering -- History.
	Civil Engineers -- Biography.
	Building.
	Buildings.
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
ISBN	1881508595 (lib. bdg.)
	9781881508595 (lib. bdg.)

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