American Bridge Patents: The First Century, 1790-1890

ISBN-13: 9781933202068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 192 str.

Emory L. Kemp

Opis

American Bridge Patents takes on the daunting task of writing based solely on thousands of pages of patent work collected from the Patent Office. The collected records focus on the historic bridge work that culminated during the first century of the office's inception. A series of essays introduces the reader to a diverse range of insight into the patents during this important part of engineering history, including how the bridge patents of that period helped to shape modern bridge engineering, framework for the structural forms found in contemporary construction, and a look into the patent office and the processes in permissions prior to the reform of the office in 1836. The second half of the work contains illustrations and texts on various bridge designs recovered from the Patent Office.