Book ID: CBB000101756

International engineering history and heritage: Improving Bridges to ASCE's 150th Anniversary: Proceedings of the Third National Congress on Civil Engineering History and Heritage, October 10-13, 2001, Houston, Texas (2001)

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Rogers, Jerry R. (Editor)
Fredrich, Augustine J. (Editor)


American Society of Civil Engineers


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: x + 508 pp., illus., maps, bibl., index
Language: English

Description Collection of 60 papers on civil engineering history and heritage programs in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Great Britain and on preservation, restoration, and education activities carried out on individual projects in these nations. U. S. topics include the restoration of historic bridges, the formation of early professional societies, archives and resources, pioneering surveying journals, the evolution of offshore platforms, historic landmarks and projects, environmental and water resources history, Texas historical bridges and projects, and ASCE branches in Texas. Topics of international civil engineering history include Gustave Eiffel's engineering genius, restoration and adaptive re-use of landmark structures in Britain, restoration of medieval churches, and Zimbabwean civil engineering history and landmarks.


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Authors & Contributors
Aceves Pastrana, Patricia Elena
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle
Cahn, Robert W.
Candiani, Vera Silvina
Carrillo, Ana María
Cavazza, Marta
Journals
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Environmental History
Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Publishers
Brepols
University of Toronto
British Library
University of California, Berkeley
Ashgate
Pergamon
Concepts
Societies; institutions; academies
Professions and professionalization
Technology
Civil engineering
International congresses
Public health
People
Penfield, Wilder Graves
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
United States
Great Britain
Mexico
Canada
Ireland
Soviet Union
Institutions
Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna
Royal Society of London
American Public Health Association
International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology
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