Bridge building : bridge designs and how they work / by Diana Briscoe.
By: Briscoe, Diana.
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BookSeries: High five reading. Publisher: Bloomington, Minn. : Red Brick Learning, c2005Description: 64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0736838538 (soft cover); 0736838813 (hard cover).Subject(s): Bridges -- Design and construction -- Juvenile literature | Bridges -- History -- Juvenile literature | Bridges -- Design and construction | Bridges -- History | Bridges -- Design and construction | Bridges -- HistoryDDC classification: 624.2 Summary: Presents a study of how bridges have been built over the centuries beginning with ancient Roman bridges and aqueducts, arched bridges, and suspension bridges, and describes great bridge disasters such as the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 62) and index.
Presents a study of how bridges have been built over the centuries beginning with ancient Roman bridges and aqueducts, arched bridges, and suspension bridges, and describes great bridge disasters such as the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
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