Essays on the history of transportation and technology
The 1959 Wheeling Custom House: a harbinger of iron and steel skeletal framingCharles Ellet Jr., (1810-1862): portrait of an engineer -- A thoroughfare through the howling wilderness: the Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike / Emory L. Kemp and Janet K. Kemp -- The Pulaski Skyway-Railway economic the...
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West Virginia University Press
2014
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The 1959 Wheeling Custom House: a harbinger of iron and steel skeletal framingCharles Ellet Jr., (1810-1862): portrait of an engineer -- A thoroughfare through the howling wilderness: the Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike / Emory L. Kemp and Janet K. Kemp -- The Pulaski Skyway-Railway economic theory applied to superhighway design / Dara Callender and Emory Kemp -- James Finley and the origins of the modern suspension bridge -- French movable dams in America -- Building the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway -- Benjamin Franklin Thomas and the introduction of the French needle dam into the United States -- John Jervis and the hydraulic design of the old Croton Aqueduct / Emory Kemp and Edward Winant -- The Muskingum Navigation -- French movable dams on the Great Kanawha River -- The Little Kanawha Navigation / Larry Sypolt and Emory Kemp. "Emory L. Kemp is the founder and director of the Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology at West Virginia University, where he also served as a chair and professor od civil engineering and a professor of history. This collection of essays encompasses over fifty years of his research in the field of history of technology." -- |
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| Beschreibung: | "Previous versions of many of these essays appeared in Canal History and Technology Proceedings, Volumes X, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXIX, and XXX"--Title page verso Includes bibliographical references |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 412 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 1938228812 1-938228-81-2 9781938228810 978-1-938228-81-0 |