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Author:

Hillhouse, Grady, author.

Title:

Engineering in plain sight : an illustrated field guide to the constructed environment / by Grady Hillhouse.

Publisher:

No Starch Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

xi, 251 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Subject:

Civil engineering.
Infrastructure (Economics).

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Electrical grid -- Communications -- Roadways -- Bridges and tunnels -- Railways -- Dams, levees, and coastal structures -- Municipal water and wastewater -- Construction.

Summary:

"This illustrated book extends the field guide genre from natural phenomena to human-made structures, making their design and construction approachable and understandable to non-engineers. Readers will learn to identify characteristics of the electrical grid, roadways, railways, bridges, tunnels, waterways, and more"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

171850232X
9781718502321

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1348868926

LCCN:

2022013814

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

YKPE532 -- Anamosa Library & Learning Center (Anamosa)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

EZPE755 -- Le Mars Public Library (Le Mars)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)