Bridges : three thousand years of defying nature /
Bridges
David J. Brown.
- London : Mitchell Beazley, 2005.
- 208 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 26 cm.
1. Origins - 2. The medieval period - 3. Renaissance to enlightenment - 4. Bridges of iron and stone: the industrial revolution - 5. Brunei and the age of heroic engineering - 6. New world, old and new ideas - 7. The many shapes of 20th-century steel - 8. Steel suspension bridges - 9. New possibilities in concrete - 10. Cable-stayed bridges - 11. Fin-de-siecle - 12. The 21st century.
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Bridges--Design and construction. Bridges--History.