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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: McCullough, David G. Great Bridge. New York, Simon and Schuster [1972] (OCoLC)600664445 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David G McCullough |
| ISBN: | 0671212133 9780671212131 067145711X 9780671457112 |
| OCLC Number: | 482678 |
| Description: | 636 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | David McCullough. |
Abstract:
A detailed account of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge providing background on its engineering history as well as the political and social climate of the late-nineteenth century.
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