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Engineering in plain sight : an illustrated field guide to the constructed environment
Title:
Engineering in plain sight : an illustrated field guide to the constructed environment
Author:
Hillhouse, Grady, author.
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
xi, 251 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Electrical grid -- Communications -- Roadways -- Bridges and tunnels -- Railways -- Dams, levees, and coastal structures -- Municipal water and wastewater -- Construction.
Abstract:
"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.
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