Great projects : the epic story of the building of America : from the taming of the Mississippi to the invention of the Internet /
Projects and engineers include James Buchanan Eads and flood control on the lower Mississippi; Arthur Powell Davis and Frank Crowe and the Hoover Dam; John Bloomfield Jervis and the Croton Aqueduct that brought clean water to New York City; Othmar Ammann and the bridges of New York City; Thomas Edis...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Free Press,
[2001]
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| Online Access: | Sample text Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | Projects and engineers include James Buchanan Eads and flood control on the lower Mississippi; Arthur Powell Davis and Frank Crowe and the Hoover Dam; John Bloomfield Jervis and the Croton Aqueduct that brought clean water to New York City; Othmar Ammann and the bridges of New York City; Thomas Edison and electricity; Samuel Insull and the spread of electricity across the nation; Fred Salvucci and the Big Dig to revamp Boston's street system; J.C.R. Licklider who first imagined the Intenet. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 322 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-310) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0743210646 9780743210645 |