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Title

Building the Brooklyn Bridge 1869-1883 : an illustrated history with images in 3D / Jeffrey I. Richman; essays by Richard Haw and Erica Wagner.

Author

Richman, Jeffrey I.

Publication

New York, NY : Bauer and Dean Publishers Inc., [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Haw, Richard, 1968-
• Wagner, Erica, author.

Description

xxii, 310 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans (some color), portraits (some color); 29 cm+

Summary

This is the captivating story of how the Brooklyn Bridge--a structure of unprecedented size and technology--was built during an age of remarkable innovation. Spanning the East River, the bridge connected for the first time the then independent cities of Brooklyn and New York. People could now travel high above one of the busiest waterways in the world, journeying across by foot, horse-drawn carriage, or railway as they took in the magnificent views. This awe-inspiring structure was not only a modern engineering feat of extraordinary imagination, fortitude, and skill, it also was a towering beacon of human triumph. Author Jeffrey Richman has gathered 253 superb nineteenth-century images, many never before published on the printed page, including engineering drawings, photographs, stereographs (seen in 3D using a viewer), woodcuts, and colored lithographs. He also specially created several anaglyphs--3D images generated from stereographs--offering the reader the sensation of being at the construction site as the towers begin to rise. A born storyteller, Richman relates how a small group of dedicated engineers and thousands of workers toiled for more than a decade to construct what was then the largest suspension bridge ever built, section by section, from the massive anchorages and elegant towers to the cables and bridge railway (operational four months after the bridge's official opening). He reminds us how profoundly modern and groundbreaking the bridge was, in its use of steel (a new material) and pioneering construction methods. This book invites the reader to step back in time to discover why this iconic bridge--proclaimed the 'eighth wonder of the world' soon after its completion and a National Historic Landmark in 1964--continues to hold such a special place in the hearts of so many. --

Alternative Title

• Building the Brooklyn Bridge: eighteen sixty nine to eighteen eighty three
• Building the Brooklyn Bridge 1869-1883 : an illustrated history with 3 dimensional images
• Building the Brooklyn Bridge 1869-1883 : an illustrated history with three dimensional images

Subject

• Bridges > New York > Design and construction
• Photography, Stereoscopic
• Three-dimensional display systems
• Ponts > New York > Conception et construction
• Photographie stéréoscopique
• Affichage tridimensionnel
• stereoscopic photography
• three-dimensional
• Bridges > Design and construction
• Buildings
• Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) > History
• New York (N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) > Histoire
• New York (State) > New York
• New York (State) > Brooklyn Bridge

Genre/Form

• illustrated books.
• History.
• Illustrated works.
• Stereographs.
• Anaglyphs.
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Note

• Accompanied by red-and-blue 3-D glasses.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 305) and index.

Contents

Preface -- Building the Brooklyn Bridge, one image at a time / Richard Haw -- The Brooklyn Bridge: a love story / Erica Wagner -- Chronology -- A note on using 3d glasses -- Engineers (1869-1883) -- Workers (1869-1883) -- Caissons (1870-1876) -- Towers (1870-1876) -- Anchorages (1872-1876) -- Footbridge and cradles (1876-1882) -- Cables (1876-1879) -- Approaches (1877-1882) -- Suspended superstructure (1881-1883) -- Railways and terminals (1883-1883) -- Opening day (May 24, 1883)

Call Number

TG25.N53

ISBN

• 9781735600123
• 1735600121

LCCN

• 2021908802
• 40031429164

OCLC

• on1245346037
• 1245346037
• SCSB-14341312

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries