Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling

ISBN-13: 9780190663902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 648 str.

Richard Haw

Opis

Engineering America narrates how Johann August Roebling, the third child of a provincial German tobacconist, became John A. Roebling, world-renowned American engineer, wealthy manufacturer, and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge and other great engineering feats of nineteenth-century America.

Recenzje

A remarkable work of primary source scholarship

O autorze

Richard Haw is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. He is the author of The Brooklyn Bridge: A Cultural History and Art of the Brooklyn Bridge: A Visual History.