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The Great Bridge

A detailed account of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge providing background on its engineering history as well as the political and social climate of the late-nineteenth century.

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Main Author: McCullough, David G.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1982, c1972.
Edition:Editions vary.
Subjects:
Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
  • The Plan
  • Man of Iron
  • The Genuine Language of America
  • Father and Son
  • Brooklyn
  • The Proper Person to See
  • The Chief Engineer
  • All According to Plan
  • Down in the Caisson
  • Fire
  • The Past Catches Up
  • How Natural, Right, and Proper
  • The Mysterious Disorder
  • The Heroic Mode
  • At the Halfway Mark
  • Spirits of '76
  • A Perfect Pandemonium
  • Number 8, Birmingham Gauge
  • The Gigantic Spinning Machine
  • Wire Fraud
  • Emily
  • The Man in the Window
  • And Yet the Bridge Is Beautiful
  • The People's Day.

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