Essays on the history of transportation and technology / Emory L. Kemp, foreword by Lance E. Metz, introduction by Robert J. Kapsch.

Other author Kemp, Emory L.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoMorgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2014.
Descriptionxii, 412 pages : many illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents 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.
Abstract "Essays on the history of transportation and technology"--Provided by publisher.
General note"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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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