Elizabeth L. Newhouse

Building projects of scale and beauty, utility and art, hold an endless power to amaze and move us. Few choices given to us in a community are more important -- and few losses are greater when they are missed. First, "Overcoming Distance" -- sections on roads, canals, bridges, railroads, and pipelines. Then "Height and Depth" - towers, tunnels, skyscrapers. "Public Spaces" - sports arenas, exposition halls. "Protection" - on land, and from water. "Responding to the Spirit" - pyramids, temples, domes, cathedrals. And finally, "Harnessing Nature's Power" -- wind, solar, hydroelectric.

From ancient walls and castles, to modern towers and sea barriers.… (mere)

This book is a compendium of engineering achievements from all ages past to present. Organized into chapters based upon the type of engineering challenge that humans have overcome it includes sections titles "overcoming Distance", "Public spaces", "Harnessing Nature's Power" and others. The graphics are beautiful as you would expect from a National Geographic Society production and include explanatory charts as well as photographs of some of the most amazing structures throughout the world. The book is a delight to read, to browse through and to meditate on the great achievements of the minds of men throughout the ages… (mere)