Rails Across the Mississippi: A History of the St. Louis Bridge

ISBN-13: 9780252074097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 265 str.

Robert W. Jackson

Opis

A tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion. It documents the planning, financing, and construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi River at St Louis, a national engineering landmark completed in 1874 that is known as the Eads Bridge.