4 Ergebnisse.

Keine Beschreibung.

Within these twelve essays, Kemp describes and analyzes nineteenth century improvements in building materials such as iron, steel, and cement, roads and bridges, especially the evolution of the suspension bridge, canals and navigable rivers, including the Ohio River and its tributaries, and water supply systems.

A tributary of the Ohio River and significant commercial route in the nineteenth century, the Muskingum River in southeastern Ohio presents a remarkable case study of how Americans have managed their waterways. In Taming the Muskingum, Emory Kemp traces this history, emphasizing the engineering and construction aspects of river navigation.

This publication takes on the daunting task of writing based solely on thousands of pages of patent work collected from the United States Patent Office. The collected records focus on the historic bridgework that culminated during the first century of the office's inception. Fueled by the field of bridge engineering and its free enterprise setting in the nineteenth century, the Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology...