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Engineering America : the life and times of John A. Roebling / Richard Haw.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190092870 (ebook) :Subject(s): Roebling, John Augustus, 1806-1869 | Civil engineers -- United States -- Biography | German Americans -- Biography | Immigrants -- United States -- BiographyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190663902DDC classification: 624.092 LOC classification: TA140.R7 | H39 2020Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: '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.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
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.
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