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Bridge construction --- Architecture --- Maillart, Robert --- Switzerland --- 624(092) --- 72.036-05 --- -Bridges, Concrete --- -Civil engineers --- -Structural design --- 624.2/.8 --- Engineering design --- Architectural design --- Strains and stresses --- Engineers --- Bridges, Concrete --- Bridges --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Civil and structural engineering in general. Substructures. Earthworks. Foundations. Tunnelling. Bridge-building. Superstructures--Biografieën --- Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--?-05 --- Aesthetics --- Design and construction --- Biography --- Bridge-building --- Civil engineers --- Concrete bridges --- Structural design. --- Aesthetics. --- Design and construction. --- 624.2/.8 Bridge-building --- 72.036-05 Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--?-05 --- 624(092) Civil and structural engineering in general. Substructures. Earthworks. Foundations. Tunnelling. Bridge-building. Superstructures--Biografieën --- Structural design --- Maillart, Robert, --- Architecture, Primitive --- Civil engineers - Switzerland - Biography --- Concrete bridges - Design and construction --- Maillart, Robert, - 1872-1940

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Engineering --- Engineers --- Ingénierie --- Ingénieurs --- History --- Histoire --- Bell, Alexander Graham --- Bell, Alexander Melville --- Chrysler, Walter P. --- Edison, Thomas Alva --- Ford, Henry --- Gray, Elisha --- Hubbard, Gardiner --- Marconi, Guglielmo --- Bell, Alexander Graham. --- Bell, Alexander Melville. --- Edison, Thomas Alva. --- Ford, Henry. --- Gray, Elisha. --- Hubbard, Gardiner. --- Marconi, Guglielmo. --- Ingénierie --- Ingénieurs --- Bell, Alexander Graham, --- Edison, Thomas Alva, --- Ford, Henry, --- Gray, Elisha, --- Marconi, Guglielmo,

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Power, Speed, and Form is the first accessible account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939--the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete. Beginning with Thomas Edison's system to generate and distribute electric power, the authors explain the Bell telephone, the oil refining processes of William Burton and Eugene Houdry, Henry Ford's Model T car and the response by General Motors, the Wright brothers' airplane, radio innovations from Marconi to Armstrong, Othmar Ammann's George Washington Bridge, the reinforced concrete structures of John Eastwood and Anton Tedesko, and in the 1930s, the Chrysler Airflow car and the Douglas DC-3 airplane. These innovations used simple numerical ideas, which the Billingtons integrate with short narrative accounts of each breakthrough--a unique and effective way to introduce engineering and how engineers think. The book shows how the best engineering exemplifies efficiency, economy and, where possible, elegance. With Power, Speed, and Form, educators, first-year engineering students, liberal arts students, and general readers now have, for the first time in one volume, an accessible and readable history of engineering achievements that were vital to America's development and that are still the foundations of modern life.

Engineering --- Engineers --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- History.

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An essential exploration of the engineering aesthetics of celebrated structures from long-span bridges to high-rise buildingsWhat do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common? According to The Tower and the Bridge, all are striking examples of structural art, an exciting area distinct from either architecture or machine design. Aided by stunning photographs, David Billington discusses the technical concerns and artistic principles underpinning the well-known projects of leading structural engineer-artists, including Othmar Ammann, Félix Candela, Gustave Eiffel, Fazlur Khan, Robert Maillart, John Roebling, and many others. A classic work, The Tower and the Bridge introduces readers to the fundamental aesthetics of engineering.

Bridges --- Structural engineering. --- Towers --- Design and construction. --- Analysis. --- Apartment. --- Arch bridge. --- Architectural designer. --- Architecture. --- Art museum. --- Art. --- Britannia Bridge. --- Calculation. --- Cantilever. --- Career. --- Case study. --- Central Elevated Walkway. --- Centrality. --- Chief technician. --- Christian Menn. --- Collaboration. --- Competition. --- Complex analysis. --- Concrete shell. --- Construction. --- Consultant. --- Curriculum. --- Designer. --- Diagram. --- Efficiency. --- Engineering analysis. --- Engineering design process. --- Engineering. --- Fiberboard. --- Forth Bridge. --- Ganter Bridge. --- Garret. --- Greenhouse gas. --- Gustave Eiffel. --- Ideology. --- Industrial Building (Detroit). --- Industrial Revolution. --- Industrial society. --- Innovation. --- Institution. --- Interaction. --- Internal combustion engine. --- International Style (architecture). --- Invention. --- Iron Age. --- Jacques Ellul. --- John Hancock Tower. --- Le Corbusier. --- Life tenure. --- Lightness. --- Machine Age. --- Machine. --- Manufacturing. --- Masonry. --- Motivation. --- Natural environment. --- Natural resource. --- Obligation. --- Obstacle. --- Othmar Ammann. --- Parapet. --- Person A. --- Personality. --- Phenomenon. --- Pier. --- Profession. --- Project. --- Proportion (architecture). --- Reputation. --- Robert Maillart. --- Saving. --- Scaffolding. --- Structural art. --- Structural engineer. --- Supporter. --- Suspension bridge. --- Technological change. --- Technology. --- The Sense of Beauty. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Transmission tower. --- Turbine. --- Uniqueness. --- Urbanization. --- Vannevar Bush. --- Verrazano Bridge (Maryland). --- Verrazano–Narrows Bridge. --- Vocabulary. --- Walter Gropius. --- Water supply. --- Water treatment. --- Weapon system. --- Weathering. --- Willis Tower. --- Work function. --- Work of art. --- Writing.

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