Amasa Stone and The Ashtabula Bridge Disaster

by Darius L Salter

The Ashtabula Bridge disaster was a horrific engineering failure that shocked late 19th century America. But was Amasa Stone's innovative all-iron bridge "an experiment which ought never have been tried," as the foreman of the Coroner's Jury proclaimed? Or was it "an honest effort to improve the bridge practice of the country," as an engineering investigator reported? In this meticulously researched book, Dr. Darius Salter delves deeply into these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609471849
• ISBN13: 9781609471842
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Emeth Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"