Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America

by Henry Petroski

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  ILLUSTRATIONS

  (with sources and acknowledgments)

  1.1 A view of Pittsburgh, ca. 1969, showing many of its bridges (from Shank)

  1.2 The Mississippi River at St. Louis, with the Eads Bridge visible behind the Gateway Arch (from the collections of the St. Louis Mercantile Library)

  1.3 A patent issued to Squire Whipple in 1841 for a truss bridge design (U.S. Patent No. 2064)

  1.4 A Currier & Ives print, ca. 1886, showing the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty (Collection of The New-York Historical Society)

  1.5 The Golden Gate Bridge, on the occasion of Pedestrian Day in 1987 (John O’Hara)

  2.1 The Britannia Tubular Bridge, with the Menai Strait Suspension Bridge in the background

  2.2 James Buchanan Eads (from Woodward)

  2.3 A truss bridge and some pertinent terminology (courtesy of Pennsylvania Department of Transportation)

  2.4 A variety of truss types employed in bridges (from Kirby et al.)

  2.5 Thomas Telford’s proposal for an arch bridge across the Thames (Bridgeman Art Gallery, Guildhall Library, Corporation of London)

  2.6 Three figures from the report of James B. Eads, showing the principle of the lever, the “canted lever,” and the truss (from Eads [1868])

  2.7 An Eads patent employing the canted-lever principle (U.S. Patent No. 83,942)

  2.8 Eads’s proposal for a bridge across the Mississippi River between St. Louis and Illinois Town (from Engineering, September 25, 1868)

  2.9 A caisson being sunk for the St. Louis bridge (from Scientific American, April 15, 1871)

  2.10 The St. Louis bridge under construction, showing the cantilever principle employed (from Scientific American, November 15, 1873)

  2.11 A contemporary photograph taken after the arches of the St. Louis bridge became self-supporting (from Woodward)

  2.12 James B. Eads shortly before his death (from the collections of the St. Louis Mercantile Library)