Rails across the Mississippi
A HISTORY OF THE ST. LOUIS BRIDGE
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Published:29th Dec '06
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion. It documents the planning, financing, and construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi River at St Louis, a national engineering landmark completed in 1874 that is known as the Eads Bridge.The story of the visionary drive that created an engineering marvel
"[The Eads Bridge ] has long been recognized as one of the outstanding civil engineering accomplishments of 19th-century America...Jackson portrays Eads as an eccentric engineer with a dominating personality who was concerned more with building a unique and enduring monument than with keeping costs down and insuring timely completion and profitability. The research is thorough, the writing excellent." Choice
ISBN: 9780252074097
Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 18mm
Weight: 594g
312 pages