The Romance of Modern Engineering - Kostenloses Hörbuch

Autor(en): Archibald Williams,

Sprache: English

Genre(s): Sachbücher Technologie & Ingenieurwesen

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19 Kapitel

1. The Harnessing of Niagara
2. The Taming of the Nile
3. Dams and Aqueducts
4. The Forth Bridge
5. The Tower Bridge
6. American Bridges
7. The Trans-Siberian Railway
8. Cairo to the Cape
9. The Loftiest Railway in the World
10. City Railways
11. The Severn Tunnel
12. The Simplon Tunnel
13. The Manchester Ship Canal
14. The Panama Canal
15. Harbours of Refuge
16. Ocean Leviathans
17. Floating Docks
18. The Romance of Petroleum
19. Artesian Wells

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As it would be impossible to treat, in the compass of a few hundred pages, all the great engineering feats of modern times without reducing individual accounts to uninteresting brevity, the author has preferred, where selection is possible, to take typical instances of engineering practice, and, by the aid of comparatively detailed descriptions, to place the reader in a position to appreciate them and similar undertakings. - Summary by Adapted from the Preface

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