American bridge : reinventing building, making history /
Explores a radical reimagining, a new way of building that introduced uniformity and modularity on a global scale while enabling the connectivity essential to the rise of the nation-state. With tales of bygone infrastructure and astonishing images, Gregory Dreicer spans a deep gap in history. He tra...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation.
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| Summary: | Explores a radical reimagining, a new way of building that introduced uniformity and modularity on a global scale while enabling the connectivity essential to the rise of the nation-state. With tales of bygone infrastructure and astonishing images, Gregory Dreicer spans a deep gap in history. He tracks the transnational creative flows that propelled the development of beam, truss, and skeleton frame as industrial essentials, shaped by classical, capitalist, techno-utopian beliefs that still animate engineering and architecture. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780262382632 (electronic bk.) 0262382636 |