Building the Golden Gate Bridge: An Interactive Engineering Adventure

by Blake Hoena

Book Overview

People living in San Francisco during the 1920s and 1930s are fascinated by the project to build the Golden Gate Bridge the worlds longest suspension bridge yet. Will you: Be a designer of the bridge, working to solve the many challenges created by such an enormous project? Work as a crewmember, accepting the dangers of laboring hundreds of feet in the air above the cold, swirling currents of San Francisco Bay? Experience situations taken from real...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1491404035
• ISBN13: 9781491404034
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Capstone Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7