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Haw, Richard, 1968-

Engineering America : the life and times of John A. Roebling / Richard Haw. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). - Oxford scholarship online . - Oxford scholarship online. .

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Engineering America' narrates how Johann August Rèobling, the third child of a provincial German tobacconist, became John A. Roebling, world-renowned American engineer, wealthy manufacturer, and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge and other great engineering feats of nineteenth-century America.

Specialized.

ISBN: 9780190092870 (ebook) : No price

Subjects--Personal Names:
Roebling, John Augustus, 1806-1869.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Civil engineers--United States--Biography.
German Americans--Biography.
Immigrants--United States--Biography.

LC Class. No.: TA140.R7 / H39 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 624.092