Bridges

Contents: Introduction; Chronology of Key Events; 1: Origins and The Ancient World; Structural principals; Defying gravity: the suspension principle; The Ancient World; Roman foundations; Roman aqueducts; Timeless arches: Rome's greatest stone bridges; The hidden legacy of Asia; 2: Renaissance to Enlightenment; Les Freres du Pont, the Rhone, France; The Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy; The Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic; Renaissance to Enlightenment; The Rialto Bridge Venice, Italy; Beyond Europe: Asia; Westminster: A new bridge for London, England; Perronet and the Pont de Neuilly, Paris, France; 3: The Industrial Revolution; The Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale, England; The Romans Reborn: Pontcysyllte, Wales; Spanning the Thames in Masonry: London, England; Replacing London Bridge, England; The First Rigid Suspension Bridges; The Menai Strait Bridge, Wales; The Grand Pont Suspendu, Switzerland; 4: Brunel and the Age of Heroic Engineering; The Britannia Railway Bridge, Menai Strait, Wales; Brunel's Timber Viaducts, England; The Hungerford & Clifton Suspension Bridges, England; The Chepstow Bridge, England; The Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, England; The Tay Bridge Disaster, Scotland; The Forth Rail Bridge, Scotland; Moving Bridges: I; Moving Bridges: II Tower Bridge, London, England; 5: New World, Old and New Ideas; American Railroads and Trusses; The Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Ohio River, USA; Crossing Niagara by train USA; James Eads & the St Louis Bridge, Mississippi, USA; The Brooklyn Bridge, New York, USA; 6: The Many Shapes of 20th Century Steel; Disaster on Disaster: The Quebec Bridge, Canada; The Carquinez Strait Bridges, San Francisco, USA; The Howrah River Bridge, Calcutta, India; Hell Gate Bridge, East River, New York, USA; Australian & American Rivalry: Sydney & New York; The Renaissance of the Box Girder Europe; 7 Steel Suspension Bridges; The George Washington Bridge, New York, USA; The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA; The San Francisco Bay Bridges I USA; "Galloping Gertie", Washington State, USA; The Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan, USA; Verrazano Narrows Bridge, New York, USA; The Forth Road Bridge, Scotland; The First Tagus Bridge, Portugal; The Severn Bridge, England/Wales; 8: The Coming of Concrete; The Art of Robert Maillart, Switzerland; Tunckhannock Viaduct, Delaware, USA; Freyssinet & the Plougastel Bridge, Brittany, France; The Bridge Master of Oregon - Conde McCullough; The Birth of Prestressing; The Art of Prestressing; The Gladesville Bridge, Sydney, Australia; 9: Cable-Stayed Bridges; Lake Maracaibo Bridge, Venezuela; The Annacis Bridge, British Columbia; The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, Dartford, England; The Skarnsundet Bridge, Norway; The Second Tagus Bridge, Portugal; Variations on a Theme; The Art of Cable-Staying: I 1960s-1980s; 10: The State of the Art; New River Gorge Bridge West, Virginia, USA; The Ganter Bridge, Switzerland; The Humber Bridge, England; The Pont de Normandie, Honfleur, France; The Ho