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05804aam a22006018i 4500 001 68591AD4BC2911EAAC3CDF0297128E48 003 SILO 005 20200702010020 008 190729s2020 nyua b 001 0beng 010 $a 2019026180 020 $a 0190663901 020 $a 9780190663902 035 $a (OCoLC)1111653892 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCL $d ERASA $d SO$ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-gx--- $a e-gx--- 050 00 $a TA140.R7 $b H39 2020 082 00 $a 624.092 $2 23 100 1 $a Haw, Richard, $d 1968- $e author. 245 10 $a Engineering America : $b the life and times of John A. Roebling / $c Richard Haw. 246 30 $a Life and times of John A. Roebling 263 $a 2004 264 1 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xi, 628 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : "Fitting one's self for the New World" -- Part 1. Novice (1806-1831) -- In Napoleon's shadow (1806-1824) -- Berlin and the culture of revolution (1824-1825) -- Building roads, designing bridges (1825-1829) -- Johann Etzler and the MuÌhlhausen Emigration Society (1829-1831) -- Across the Atlantic (1831) -- Part 2. Apprentice (1831-1847) -- And out to Western Pennsylvania (1831-1832) -- Establishing Saxonburg (1832-1837) -- Internal improvements (1838-1841) -- Making wire rope and the wire rope industry (1840-1848) -- Private life, public works (1844-1845) -- Rebuilding Pittsburgh (1845-1846) -- Setting the future (1846-1847) -- Part 3. Master (1848-69) -- Economies of scale (1848-1852) -- Crossing Niagara (1846-48) -- Securing Niagara (1852-55) -- The Kentucky, Ohio, and Allegheny (1856-1860) -- And the war came (1861-1865) -- Unfinished business (1863-1869) -- Epilogue: "I am my own judge." 520 $a "John Roebling was one of the nineteenth century's most brilliant engineers, ingenious inventors, successful manufacturers, and fascinating personalities. Raised in a German backwater amid the war-torn chaos of the Napoleonic Wars, he immigrated to the US in 1831, where he became wealthy and acclaimed, eventually receiving a carte-blanche contract to build one of the nineteenth century's most stupendous and daring works of engineering: a gigantic suspension bridge to span the East River between New York and Brooklyn. In between, he thought, wrote, and worked tirelessly. He dug canals and surveyed railroads; he planned communities and founded new industries. Horace Greeley called him "a model immigrant;" generations later, F. Scott Fitzgerald worked on a script for the movie version of his life. Like his finest creations, Roebling was held together by the delicate balance of countervailing forces. On the surface, his life was exemplary and his accomplishments legion. As an immigrant and employer, he was respected throughout the world. As an engineer, his works profoundly altered the physical landscape of America. He was a voracious reader, a fervent abolitionist, and an engaged social commentator. His understanding of the natural world however bordered on the occult and his opinions about medicine are best described as medieval. For a man of science and great self-certainty, he was also remarkably quick to seize on a whole host of fads and foolish trends. Yet Roebling held these strands together. Throughout his life, he believed in the moral application of science and technology, that bridges-along with other great works of connection, the Atlantic Cable, the Transcontinental Railroad-could help bring people together, erase divisions, and heal wounds. Like Walt Whitman, Roebling was deeply committed to the creation of a more perfect union, forged from the raw materials of the continent. John Roebling was a complex, deeply divided yet undoubtedly influential figure, and his biography illuminates not only his works but also the world of nineteenth-century America. Roebling's engineering feats are well known, but the man himself is not; for alongside the drama of large scale construction lies an equally rich drama of intellectual and social development and crisis, one that mirrored and reflected the great forces, trials and failures of the American nineteenth century."-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Roebling, John Augustus, $d 1806-1869. 600 17 $a Roebling, John Augustus, $d 1806-1869. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00118485 650 0 $a Civil engineers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Civil engineers $z Germany $v Biography. 650 0 $a Suspension bridges $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Railroad bridges $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a German Americans $v Biography. 650 0 $a Immigrants $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a MuÌhlhausen (Thuringia, Germany) $v Biography. 650 7 $a Civil engineers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862533 650 7 $a German Americans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00941308 650 7 $a Immigrants. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00967712 650 7 $a Railroad bridges. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01088568 650 7 $a Suspension bridges. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01139694 651 7 $a Germany. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210272 651 7 $a Germany $z MuÌhlhausen (Thuringia) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01314058 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Haw, Richard, $t Engineering America $d New York : Oxford University Press, [2020] $z 9780190663926 $w (DLC) 2019026181 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220602020357.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=68591AD4BC2911EAAC3CDF0297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search