This stunning visual presentation, filled with photographs and illustrations depicting the world's greatest bridges, explains the manners in which laborers, engineers and architects have surmounted the problem of spanning the seemingly impassable from ancient times to the 21st century. A brilliantly written text explains in understandable terms the physics of different bridge types, while fascinating histories describe the hows and whys behind the world's most recognizable structures.
- ISBN10 0760312346
- ISBN13 9780760312346
- Publish Date 14 August 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 April 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Octopus Publishing Group
- Imprint Mitchell Beazley
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 176
- Language English