Transportation and technology / / Emory L. Kemp ; foreword by Lance E. Metz ; introduction by Robert J. Kapsch

• Autore: Kemp Emory L.
• Pubblicazione: Morgantown, West Virginia : , : West Virginia University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (426 p.)
• Disciplina: 627/.1309
• Soggetto topico: Technology - History; Engineering - History; Transportation - History
• Persona (resp. second.): MetzLance E.; KapschRobert J.
• Note generali: "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.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Essays on the history of transportation and technology"--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: Transportation and technology
• ISBN: 1-940425-04-2; 1-940425-03-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824104603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II