01791nam a2200397 i 4500 EDZ0002180009 StDuBDS 20200316203010.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr ||||||||||| 200203s2020 nyua fob 001|0beng|d 9780190092870 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS eng StDuBDS rda pn TA140.R7 H39 2020 624.092 23 Haw, Richard, 1968- author. Engineering America : the life and times of John A. Roebling / Richard Haw. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020. 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). text rdacontent still image rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Oxford scholarship online Also issued in print: 2020. Includes bibliographical references and index. '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. Specialized. Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 10, 2020). Roebling, John Augustus, 1806-1869. Civil engineers United States Biography. German Americans Biography. Immigrants United States Biography. Print version : 9780190663902 Oxford scholarship online. Oxford scholarship online https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190663902.001.0001