02935nam 2200637 450 991046044900332120200520144314.01-940425-03-4(CKB)3710000000239334(EBL)3417056(SSID)ssj0001335494(PQKBManifestationID)11874738(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001335494(PQKBWorkID)11286411(PQKB)11281576(MiAaPQ)EBC3417056(OCoLC)891081923(MdBmJHUP)muse41789(Au-PeEL)EBL3417056(CaPaEBR)ebr10932062(CaONFJC)MIL797747(EXLCZ)99371000000023933420140924h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTransportation and technology /Emory L. Kemp ; foreword by Lance E. Metz ; introduction by Robert J. KapschFirst edition.Morgantown, West Virginia :West Virginia University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (426 p.)"Previous versions of many of these essays appeared in Canal History and Technology Proceedings, Volumes X, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXIX, and XXX"--Title page verso.1-938228-81-2 Includes bibliographical references.The 1959 Wheeling Custom House: a harbinger of iron and steel skeletal framing -- Charles Ellet Jr., (1810-1862): portrait of an engineer -- A thoroughfare through the howling wilderness: the Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike / Emory L. Kemp and Janet K. Kemp -- The Pulaski Skyway-Railway economic theory applied to superhighway design / Dara Callender and Emory Kemp -- James Finley and the origins of the modern suspension bridge -- French movable dams in America -- Building the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway -- Benjamin Franklin Thomas and the introduction of the French needle dam into the United States -- John Jervis and the hydraulic design of the old Croton Aqueduct / Emory Kemp and Edward Winant -- The Muskingum Navigation -- French movable dams on the Great Kanawha River -- The Little Kanawha Navigation / Larry Sypolt and Emory Kemp."Essays on the history of transportation and technology"--Provided by publisher.TechnologyHistoryEngineeringHistoryTransportationHistoryElectronic books.TechnologyHistory.EngineeringHistory.TransportationHistory.627/.1309Kemp Emory L.897044Metz Lance E.Kapsch Robert J.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460449003321Transportation and technology2004280UNINA