Landmark American Bridges

by Eric Delony

Book Overview

Features over 200 images of over 90 American landmark bridges arranged chronologically to reveal the evolution of American bridge building. An introductory text, a timeline of bridge history, a bibliography, and a listing of bridges in the Historic American Engineering Record collection enhance this visual history of bridge building in America.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872628574
• ISBN13: 9780872628571
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Industrial Archeologist

Eric Delony has written a wonderful book. It is replete with the photos of our built heritage that few people will realize is valuable until it is long gone. This book is a continuation of Eric Delony's life-long dedication to Industrial Archeology -- a subject that has not received the interest that it deserves. Hopefully we will see more books from Eric on a variety of similar subjects in the future.

Famous to obscure bridges - good overview.

This book provides an excellent overview of American bridge design. I particularly enjoyed the attention paid to little-known but important rural bridges over smaller waterways - a thoughtful review of structures that are ingenius, pragmatic and artful solutions to the problem of getting from point A to point B. The photography is good but could be better.