Ted Ruddock, Ruddock Ted

Arch Bridges and Their Builders 1735 1835

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive history of bridge building during the century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 714g
• ISBN-13: 9780521090216
• ISBN-10: 0521090210
• Artikelnr.: 25447365

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I: Labelye and his contemporaries 1735-1759
1. Westminster bridge
2. Bridges in the country
3. Timber bridges
4. Architecture hydraulique and Essex Bridge, Dublin'
5. Thoeory of arches and pontypridd
6. Four ancient bridges
Part II: The years of Mylne and smeaton 1759-1796
7. Blackfriars bridge
8. John Smeaton and Robert Mylne
9. Bridges by architects
10. Navigable aqueducts
11. The first iron bridges
Part III: The years of Rennie and Telford 1790-1835
12. Rennie and Telford - early years
13. Iron and timber
14. Climax masonry.