Engineers Of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America | 
|  | | | Title: | Engineers Of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America | | Author: | Henry Petroski | | Publisher: | Knopf | | Type: | Book / Hardcover | | Publication Date: | 03 October, 1995 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0679439390 / 9780679439394 | | List Price: | $30.00 | | You Save: | $23.93 | | Amazon Price: | $6.07 (via Amazon marketplace seller) | | | |
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With 131 illustrations in text.
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Henry Petroski's lyrical history of bridge builders in America is organized around five engineers: James Eads (inventor of the diving bell, which bridged Mississippi at St. Louis); Theodore Cooper (railroad bridge engineer and designer of the ill-fated Quebec Bridge); Gustav Lindenthal (Hell Gate Bridge, New York); Othmar Ammann (George Washington and Verrazano-Narrow bridges); and David Steinman (Mackinac bridge). Petroski's opening and closing chapters, "Imagine" and "Realize," remind us how a bridge starts out as a dream of engineering, but ends as a reality of compromise and maintenance. Edward Tenner says that "The profound contribution of Engineers of Dreams is to remind us that communication across generations may be the most important bridge of all."
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• Book Evokes A Sense Of Wonder 07 June, 2000
Engineers of Dreams is a book I've read several times because it involves me in the history behind some of engineerings greatest triumphs... and failures. The story of great engineers with various combinations of vision and practicality, as well as perseverence in all cases, makes for a kind of drama. In some cases, we know how the story ended, with a great bridge we can see. In other cases, the story ends with a wreck and bodies. From the story of the San Francisco Bay Bridge to the story of the first Quebec Bridge, this book itself spans a range of ability and satisfaction that is a joy to perceive.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A68JOU4GHD820
• Bridgepros Review 11 August, 2002
If you want to learn more about the best American bridge designers and their bridges, this is the book for you! In particular it has a very good chapter on Steinman (the designer of the Mackinac Bridge).This book will tell you the stories and politics behind each one of the designers featured and their bridges.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A16SRHLJ07K6U2
• The Mackinac Bridge Is Finally Recogized 05 April, 1998
Finally, FINALLY: a recognition of David Steinman's achievements. The Mackinac Bridge has been described as a "symphony of concrete and steel". If Steinman had not been an enginneer, he may have been a musician.Some structures clearly belong where they are placed. Just a few, though. Steinman had the eye for such places: Messina, for example. It was nice to see a chapter devoted to him, and the rest of the book was good, but otherwise documented.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AJODIMJX61856
• A Fine Book Explaining The History Of Building Bridges 08 September, 1997
There are very few books which deal with the detail of what it took to build some of the most useful bridges that , even though they were built almost a hundred years ago, are still used and appreciated by millions of people today. I heartily recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the subject and am not surprised, but disappointed that the book is not currently available by the publisher.I was going to purchase several copies as gifts to fellow engineers. I look forward to the second edition
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1FE2DF9E4LDV9
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