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Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1869–1883: An Illustrated History w/3D Images
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Features
- Illustrated
- ISBN
- 9781735600123
- Book Title
- Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1869-1883 : an Illustrated History, with Images in 3d
- Publisher
- Bauer & Dean Publishers, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 11.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Architecture, Technology & Engineering, Photography, History
- Topic
- United States / 19th Century, General, Civil / Bridges, Subjects & Themes / Landscapes, United States / General
- Item Weight
- 58.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 9.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bauer & Dean Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1735600121
ISBN-13
9781735600123
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11050393915
Product Key Features
Book Title
Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1869-1883 : an Illustrated History, with Images in 3d
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 19th Century, General, Civil / Bridges, Subjects & Themes / Landscapes, United States / General
Publication Year
2021
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Architecture, Technology & Engineering, Photography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
58.5 Oz
Item Length
11.3 in
Item Width
9.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2021-908802
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
This thrilling and richly arranged coffee-table volume will re-ignite your love of the Brooklyn Bridge. Bringing together a trove of archival images, Richman explores the extraordinary story of the bridge's construction--grand, marvelous and sometimes tragic. Richman's epic visual treatment of the bridge's development rightly centers it as one of the greatest engineering achievements in American history., Now, interested Brooklynites can take a walk through history with Richman's extraordinary photographs, showing yesteryears' construction miracles that conjure the irresistible reverence for New York's past., Richman provides researchers and devotees of 'the great bridge' a richly detailed pictorial record with compelling new perspectives on the construction details of this nineteenth-century engineering feat. A unique feature are the 3D images made from nineteenth-century stereographs. Using the 3D glasses that come with the book, the reader will feel present at the moment the image was captured. This book is a significant contribution to the scholarship on the Brooklyn Bridge and serves as an essential compendium to David McCullough's work., If you love Brooklyn or bridges or New York City or cities or 19th-century marvels--or all of the above, as I do--this is a perfect feast, a would-be time-traveler's delight, overflowing with rare and evocative and fascinating images. It's a terrific book., After 40 years of being a fan, historian Jeffrey Richman's labor of love is done: a beautifully illustrated new book about the 14-year construction of the Brooklyn Bridge., The bridge, with its majestic and inspiring presence, is Brooklyn's gift to the world. The book will fire your passion for this icon to new heights and reaffirm the potential in all of us., Jeff Richman has pulled together a stunning book full of magical images and beautifully told episodes that help us better understand just how remarkable this engineering feat truly was. This is a joyful book--a celebration of one of America's iconic architectural achievements.
Dewey Decimal
624.5
Synopsis
" Building the Brooklyn Bridge is a perfect feast, a would-be time-traveler's delight, overflowing with rare and evocative and fascinating images." - Kurt Andersen Recipient of the 2021 Book Award from The Victorian Society New York. The captivating story of how a bridge of unprecedented size and technology was built during an age of remarkable innovation. 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 since 1964--continues to hold such a special place in the hearts of so many. Spanning the East River, the Brooklyn Bridge connected for the first time the then independent cities of Brooklyn and New York. 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, historian at Brooklyn's famed Green-Wood Cemetery, has gathered more than 250 superb nineteenth-century images, many never before published on the printed page, including engineering drawings, photographs, stereographs, woodcuts, and colored lithographs. Flipping through the book, one can imagine the excitement people around the world felt as they followed the progress of the bridge's construction, either through the illustrated papers of the day or using viewers to look at stereographs in three dimensions. Richman specially commissioned more than forty anaglyphs--3D images generated from the historic stereographs--to recreate the 3D experience on the page. Every copy of the book includes a pair of 3D glasses kept in a pocket inside the back cover, offering the reader the sensation of being at the construction site as the towers began 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. The bridge still elicits awe and admiration today. "This is one of humankind's great creations"- author interview with Michelle Miller on CBS Saturday Morning . Click here to watch 7-minute segment on book and bridge.
LC Classification Number
TG25.N53R53 2021
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Copyright Date
2021
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