Book ID: CBB000110053

Six Bridges: The Legacy of Othmar H. Ammann (2000)

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Rastorfer, Darl (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: x + 188 pp., frontis., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Swiss-born engineer who built bridges in New York City beginning in the 1920s.


Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Billington, David P., Jr.
Saidiya Hartman
Paul Raphaelson
Joshua Sternfeld
D'Antonio, Patricia
Wilson, Jamie Jaywann
Journals
American Quarterly
Technology and Culture
Journal of Social History
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
American Historical Review
Publishers
Princeton University Press
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
W. W. Norton & Co.
Viking
University of Pennsylvania Press
Concepts
Technology
Bridges
Civil engineering
African Americans
African Americans and science
Economics
People
Wilgus, William J.
Du Bois, William Edward B.
Britton, Nathaniel Lord
Boas, Franz
Ammann, Othmar
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Gilded Age (1870s-1900)
21st century
Places
United States
New York City (New York, U.S.)
New York (U.S.)
Great Britain
Philadelphia, PA
Germany
Institutions
Pennsylvania Railroad
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