✓ Read õ Crossing the Hudson: Historic Bridges and Tunnels of the River (Rivergate Books (Hardcover)) by Mr. Donald Wolf ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB

Wolf simultaneously tracks the founding of the towns and villages along the water's edge and the development of technologies such as steam and internal combustion that demanded new ways to cross the river. As a result, innovative engineering was created to provide for these resources.From hybrid, timber arch, and truss bridges on stone piers

• Title : Crossing the Hudson: Historic Bridges and Tunnels of the River (Rivergate Books (Hardcover))
• Author : Mr. Donald Wolf
• Rating : 4.52 (527 Vote)
• Publish : 2016-2-8
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 288 Pages
• Asin : 0813547083
• Language : English

Wolf simultaneously tracks the founding of the towns and villages along the water's edge and the development of technologies such as steam and internal combustion that demanded new ways to cross the river. As a result, innovative engineering was created to provide for these resources.From hybrid, timber arch, and truss bridges on stone piers to long-span suspension and cantilevered bridges, railroad tunnels, and improvements in iron and steel technology, the construction feats that cross the Hudson represent technical elegance and physical beauty. Crossing the Hudson reveals their often multileveled stories--a history of where, why, when, and how these structures were built; the social, political, and commercial forces that influenced decisions to erect them; the personalities of the planners and builders; the unique connection between a builder and his bridge; and the design and construction techniques that turned mythical goals into structures of utility and beauty.. Later, the needs of a new transportation system became critical--when steam railroads first rolled along there was no practical way to get them across the water without bridges.Crossing the Hudson continues this story soon after the end of the war, in 1805, when the first bridge was completed. Donald E.

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This extremely well written book not only provides revealing insights into the history of the Hudson River, its environs, and their people and infrastructure, but also demonstrates in case after case how interesting the stories surrounding them can be.". "In Crossing the Hudson, Donald Wolf shows with a fine eye for detail how the engineering accomplishments embodied in bridges and tunnels are inseparably linked to the larger social and political context in which they are conceived and built