Engineering America narrates how Johann August Röbling, the third child of a provincial German tobacconist, became John A. Roebling, world-renowned American engineer, wealthy manufacturer, and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge and other great engineering feats of nineteenth-century America.
Engineering America narrates how Johann August Röbling, the third child of a provincial German tobacconist, became John A. Roebling, world-renowned American engineer, wealthy manufacturer, and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge and other great engineering feats of nineteenth-century America.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Richard Haw is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. He is the author of The Brooklyn Bridge: A Cultural History and Art of the Brooklyn Bridge: A Visual History.
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* Acknowledgments * Introduction: "Fitting One's Self for the New World" * Part One: Novice (1806-1831) * Chapter 1: In Napoleon's Shadow (1806-1824) * Chapter 2: Berlin and the Culture of Revolution (1824-1825) * Chapter 3: Westphalia: Building Roads, Designing Bridges (1825-1829) * Chapter 4: Johann Etzler and the Mühlhausen Emigration Society (1829-1831) * Chapter 5: Across the Atlantic (1831) * Part Two: Apprentice (1831-1847) * Chapter 6: And out to Western Pennsylvania (1831-1832) * Chapter 7: Establishing Saxonburg (1832-1837) * Chapter 8: Internal Improvements (1838-1841) * Chapter 9: Making Wire Rope and the Wire Rope Industry (1840-1848) * Chapter 10: Private Life, Public Works (1844-1845) * Chapter 11: Rebuilding Pittsburgh: Finishing the Allegheny, Spanning the Monongahela (1845-1846) * Chapter 12: Setting the Future (1846-1847) * Part Three: Master (1848-69) * Chapter 13: Economies of Scale (1848-1852) * Chapter 14: Crossing Niagara (1846-48) * Chapter 15: Securing Niagara (1852-55) * Chapter 16: The Kentucky, Ohio and Allegheny (1856-1860) * Chapter 17: And the War Came (1861-1865) * Chapter 18: Unfinished Business (1863-1869) * Epilogue: "I am my own Judge" * Notes * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction: "Fitting One's Self for the New World" * Part One: Novice (1806-1831) * Chapter 1: In Napoleon's Shadow (1806-1824) * Chapter 2: Berlin and the Culture of Revolution (1824-1825) * Chapter 3: Westphalia: Building Roads, Designing Bridges (1825-1829) * Chapter 4: Johann Etzler and the Mühlhausen Emigration Society (1829-1831) * Chapter 5: Across the Atlantic (1831) * Part Two: Apprentice (1831-1847) * Chapter 6: And out to Western Pennsylvania (1831-1832) * Chapter 7: Establishing Saxonburg (1832-1837) * Chapter 8: Internal Improvements (1838-1841) * Chapter 9: Making Wire Rope and the Wire Rope Industry (1840-1848) * Chapter 10: Private Life, Public Works (1844-1845) * Chapter 11: Rebuilding Pittsburgh: Finishing the Allegheny, Spanning the Monongahela (1845-1846) * Chapter 12: Setting the Future (1846-1847) * Part Three: Master (1848-69) * Chapter 13: Economies of Scale (1848-1852) * Chapter 14: Crossing Niagara (1846-48) * Chapter 15: Securing Niagara (1852-55) * Chapter 16: The Kentucky, Ohio and Allegheny (1856-1860) * Chapter 17: And the War Came (1861-1865) * Chapter 18: Unfinished Business (1863-1869) * Epilogue: "I am my own Judge" * Notes * Index
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