Bibliograph

Essays on the history of transportation and technology, Emory L. Kemp [and others]

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Essays on the history of transportation and technology, Emory L. Kemp [and others]

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

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Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Essays on the history of transportation and technology

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Emory L. Kemp [and others]

Summary

"Essays on the history of transportation and technology"--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

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 & 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

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