Essays on the history of transportation and technology
Essays on the history of transportation and technology [electronic resource] /
Emory L. Kemp [and others].
- First edition.
- Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2014.
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
"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.
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.
9781940425030 1940425034 9781940425047 1940425042
Transportation--History.
Engineering--History.
Technology--History.
Electronic books.
T15 / .E78 2014
627/.1309
"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.
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.
9781940425030 1940425034 9781940425047 1940425042
Transportation--History.
Engineering--History.
Technology--History.
Electronic books.
T15 / .E78 2014
627/.1309