Engineering America : the life and times of John A. Roebling /

'Engineering America' narrates how Johann August Röbling, 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 Ameri...

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Main Author: Haw, Richard, 1968- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
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Online Access:Oxford scholarship online
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520 8 |a 'Engineering America' narrates how Johann August Röbling, 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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