A Book of Bridges
by Walter Shaw Sparrow
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About this eBook
- Author
- Sparrow, Walter Shaw, 1862-1940
- Title
- A book of bridges
- Original Publication
- London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1915.
- Credits
- Carol Brown, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TG: Technology: Bridge engineering
- Subject
- Bridges
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 74057
- Release Date
- July 16, 2024
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.A BOOK OF BRIDGES
- 3.Untitled
- 4.Untitled
- 5.PREFATORY NOTE
- 6.CONTENTS
- 7.LIST OF COLOUR PLATES
- 8.LIST OF BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
- 9.A BOOK OF BRIDGES
- 10.CHAPTER THE FIRST — ON THE STUDY OF BRIDGES AND ROADS
- 11.I
- 12.II
- 13.III
- 14.IV — FOOTNOTES:
- 15.CHAPTER THE SECOND — MAN AS THE MIMIC OF NATURE
- 16.I
- 17.II
- 18.III
- 19.IV
- 20.V
- 21.VI
- 22.VII
- 23.VIII — FOOTNOTES:
- 24.CHAPTER THE THIRD — A FEW WORDS ON THE ROMAN GENIUS
- 25.I
- 26.II
- 27.III
- 28.IV
- 29.V — FOOTNOTES:
- 30.CHAPTER THE FOURTH — OLD BRIDGES, EUROPEAN, PERSIAN AND CHINESE
- 31.I
- 32.II
- 33.III
- 34.IV
- 35.V
- 36.VI — FOOTNOTES:
- 37.CHAPTER THE FIFTH — ON THE EVOLUTION OF UNFORTIFIED BRIDGES
- 38.I
- 39.II — FOOTNOTES:
- 40.APPENDICES
- 41.APPENDIX I
- 42.APPENDIX II
- 43.INDEX AND GLOSSARY
- 44.INDEX AND GLOSSARY
- 45.Transcriber’s Note:
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