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Built : the hidden stories behind our structures
- Title
- Built : the hidden stories behind our structures / Roma Agrawal.
- Author
- Agrawal, Roma, 1983-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- 300 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Looks at the history of structural engineering, discusses the science behind the field, describes how engineers keep modern buildings from falling down and how a bridge can span distances, and compares modern solutions with those from ancient cultures. --Publisher
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Popular works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index.
- Contents
- Storey -- Force -- Fire -- Clay -- Metal -- Rock -- Sky -- Earth -- Hollow -- Pure -- Clean -- Idol -- Bridge -- Dream.
- ISBN
- 9781635570229
- 1635570220
- 9781635570212 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018000409
- 60002239169
- OCLC
- ocn982505896
- 982505896
- SCSB-8969566
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries