Essays on the history of transportation and technology /Emory L. Kemp [and others.
Essays on the history of transportation and technology /Emory L. Kemp [and others.
- First edition.
- Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource
"Previous versions of many of these essays appeared in Canal History and Technology Proceedings, Volumes X, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXIX, and XXX"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
The 1959 Wheeling Custom House: a harbinger of iron and steel skeletal framing -- Charles Ellet Jr., (1810-1862): portrait of an engineer -- A thoroughfare through the howling wilderness: the Weston and Gauley Bridge Turnpike / The Pulaski Skyway-Railway economic theory applied to superhighway design / James Finley and the origins of the modern suspension bridge -- French movable dams in America -- Building the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway -- Benjamin Franklin Thomas and the introduction of the French needle dam into the United States -- John Jervis and the hydraulic design of the old Croton Aqueduct / The Muskingum Navigation -- French movable dams on the Great Kanawha River -- The Little Kanawha Navigation / Emory L. Kemp and Janet K. Kemp -- Dara Callender and Emory Kemp -- Emory Kemp and Edward Winant -- Larry Sypolt and Emory Kemp.
"Essays on the history of transportation and technology"--Provided by publisher.
9781940425030
2013042732
Technology--History.
Engineering--History.
Transportation--History.
Electronic Books.
T15 / .E873 2014
"Previous versions of many of these essays appeared in Canal History and Technology Proceedings, Volumes X, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXIX, and XXX"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
The 1959 Wheeling Custom House: a harbinger of iron and steel skeletal framing -- Charles Ellet Jr., (1810-1862): portrait of an engineer -- A thoroughfare through the howling wilderness: the Weston and Gauley Bridge Turnpike / The Pulaski Skyway-Railway economic theory applied to superhighway design / James Finley and the origins of the modern suspension bridge -- French movable dams in America -- Building the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway -- Benjamin Franklin Thomas and the introduction of the French needle dam into the United States -- John Jervis and the hydraulic design of the old Croton Aqueduct / The Muskingum Navigation -- French movable dams on the Great Kanawha River -- The Little Kanawha Navigation / Emory L. Kemp and Janet K. Kemp -- Dara Callender and Emory Kemp -- Emory Kemp and Edward Winant -- Larry Sypolt and Emory Kemp.
"Essays on the history of transportation and technology"--Provided by publisher.
9781940425030
2013042732
Technology--History.
Engineering--History.
Transportation--History.
Electronic Books.
T15 / .E873 2014