TY - BOOK AU - Kemp,Emory L. TI - Essays on the history of transportation and technology /Emory L. Kemp [and others SN - 9781940425030 AV - T15 .E873 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Morgantown PB - West Virginia University Press KW - Technology KW - History KW - Engineering KW - Transportation KW - Electronic Books N1 - "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; 1; 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; Emory L. Kemp and Janet K. Kemp --; The Pulaski Skyway-Railway economic theory applied to superhighway design; Dara Callender and Emory Kemp --; 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; Emory Kemp and Edward Winant --; The Muskingum Navigation --; French movable dams on the Great Kanawha River --; The Little Kanawha Navigation; Larry Sypolt and Emory Kemp; 2; b N2 - "Essays on the history of transportation and technology"--Provided by publisher UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=847047&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -