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George Goethals, Panama Canal engineer
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Jean Lee Latham |
A biography of the West Point graduate who learned civil engineering "from the ground up" and supervised the completion of the Panama Canal. |
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Alexander's bridge
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Willa Cather |
Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston. He had… |
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The story of Brunel
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L. T. C. Rolt |
The life of the nineteenth-century English engineer who was responsible for many innovations and advances in the building of bridges, tunnels, and early trans-Atlantic steamships. |
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Pure
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Andrew Miller |
Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer… |
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Good guys, wise guys, and putting up buildings
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Samuel C. Florman |
"Starting in the Navy Seabees at the end of WWII, Samuel C. Florman made his way as a general contractor in New York City through the period of explosive development, private exuberance and the histo… |
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George Ferris, what a wheel!
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Barbara Lowell |
A portrait of the engineer who invented the Ferris wheel describes the ambitious ideas that inspired him to build the largest wheel in the world for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. |
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Telford's Britain
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Derrick Beckett |
192 p. : 24 cm |
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Brunel
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R. A. Buchanan |
xxiv, 294 p., [16] p. of plates : 24 cm |
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The testing of Luther Albright
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MacKenzie Bezos |
Luther Albright is a devoted father and a designer of dams, a self-controlled man who believes he can engineer happiness for his family by sheltering them from his own emotions.But when an earthquake… |
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From first to last
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Mark A. Snell |
"This is a complete life story of one of the most controversial yet least well known generals on either side during the Civil War. Graduating first in his class at West Point, William Buel Franklin w… |
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Construction
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Nathan Aaseng |
Profiles eight builders and their famous construction projects, including Imhotep and the Step Pyramid, Alexandre Eiffel and the Eiffel Tower, and William Lamb and the Empire State Building. |
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Engineering Architecture
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Yasmin Sabina Khan |
*Engineering Architecture: The Vision of Fazlur R. Khan* focuses on Khan’s progressive ideas for large-scale building design, which he initiated in his own projects – projects such as Chicago’s 100-s… |
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