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Power, Speed, and Form is the first accessible account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939--the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete. Beginning with Thomas Edison's system to generate and distribute electric power, the authors explain the Bell telephone, the oil refinin...

An essential exploration of the engineering aesthetics of celebrated structures from long-span bridges to high-rise buildings What do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common? According to The Tower and the Bridge, all are striking examples of structural art, an exciting area distinct from either architecture or machine design. Aided by stunning photographs, David Billi...

The engineering ideas behind key twentieth-century technical innovations, from great dams and highways to the jet engine, the transistor, the microchip, and the computer.Technology is essential to modern life, yet few of us are technology-literate enough to know much about the engineering that underpins it. In this book, David P. Billington, Jr., offers accessible accounts of the key twentieth-century engineering innovations that brought us in...

In den USA längst zum Klassiker avanciert, erscheint "The Tower and the Bridge" nun endlich in deutscher Übersetzung. In seinem Geleitwort zur deutschen Ausgabe schreibt Jörg Schlaich: "Dieses Buch ist 'Pflichtlektüre' und Hochgenuss für den 'Ingenieurbaukünstler', bei dessen Bauten der Zusammenhang von Form und Kraftfluss ablesbar ist und die sich durch die Ideale Effizienz, Wirtschaftlichkeit und Eleganz auszeichnen." Billington begründet in...

The Innovators. A richly illustrated introduction to the engineering triumphs that made America modern.Praise for The Tower and the Bridge."Fascinating and informative...should be required reading for architects, engineers, and anyone who is interested in the special role of structural art in our technological society." --Myron Goldsmith"David Billington brings the special insight of an engineer to the study of history. The result is a provoca...

What do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common? According to this book all are striking examples of structural art, an exciting form distinct from either architecture or machine design.

A richly illustrated introduction to the engineering triumphs that made America modernPraise for The Tower and the Bridge"Fascinating and informative. . . . [S]hould be required reading for architects, engineers, and anyone who is interested in the special role of structural art in our technological society." -- Myron Goldsmith Coeditor (with David Billington) Technique and Aesthetics in the Design of Tall Buildings"David Billington brings the...

This is the story of Philip Kerr and a group of Oxford graduates that founded The Round Table (Journal of International Affairs) in 1910 and influenced British foreign policy over the following thirty years. As the principal thinker of the group, Kerr saw the need for a supra-national grouping and wanted to organize the British Empire into a federal superstate. The group also sought an Anglo-American alliance, and in 1939, joined a world feder...

A comprehensive biography of Robert Maillart, one of the most important engineers and designers of the twentieth century.

Richly illustrated, Big Dams of the New Deal Era offers a compelling account of how major dams in the New Deal era restructured the landscape--both politically and physically--and why American society in the 1930s embraced them wholeheartedly.

The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams' baneful effects on river ecologies spark public debate.

Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.