Stephen Bayley

The bridge of size

Erica Wagner shows how Washington Roebling was not only a designer of genius but an imaginative visionary

  • Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge

    Erica Wagner

    Bloomsbury, pp. 364

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