TY - BOOK AU - Brown,David J. TI - Bridges: three thousand years of defying nature SN - 1845330803 U1 - 624.2 PY - 2005/// CY - London PB - Mitchell Beazley KW - Bridges KW - Design and construction KW - History N1 - 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 ER -