The great bridge
the epic story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Book - 2001
A detailed account of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge provides background information on its engineering history as well as the political and social climate of the late nineteenth century.
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2001.
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| 100 | 1 | |a McCullough, David G. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The great bridge : |b the epic story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge / |c David McCullough. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Simon & Schuster, |c 2001. | ||
| 300 | |a 608 p., [16] p. of plates : |b ill., map ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Originally published 1972; reprinted with new introduction by the author. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a A detailed account of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge provides background information on its engineering history as well as the political and social climate of the late nineteenth century. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) |x History. | |
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