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Transitions in Engineering

Guillaume Henri Dufour and the Early 19th Century Cable Suspension Bridges

  • Tom Frank Peters
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages 1-6
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  2. Foreword
    André Corboz
    Pages 7-7
  3. Some basic issues
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    Pages 8-12
  4. Prehistory
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    Pages 13-38
  5. Background
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    Pages 39-65
  6. Genesis of the wire cable bridge
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    Pages 66-114
  7. The establishment of a structural type
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    Pages 115-143
  8. French developments and their influence up to the catastrophe of 1850
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    Pages 144-171
  9. A truncated development: the underspanned suspension bridge
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    Pages 172-209
  10. Annotated bibliography and index
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    Pages 211-232
  11. Back Matter
    Pages 233-244
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  • Tom Frank Peters
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  1. 1.Department of ArchitectureCornell UniversityIthacaUSA

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