Entrée principale:

Greenhill, Ralph.

Titre et auteur:

Engineer's witness / Ralph Greenhill.

Édition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Toronto : Coach House Press ; Boston : Godine, 1985.

Description:

207 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Kentucky River Bridge, Cincinnati Southern Railway, 1877 -- Surveyor and chainman -- The first dry dock, Brooklyn Navy Yard, under construction -- Portage Viaduct, Buffalo & New York City Railroad -- Queen of the West -- Upper Mississippi steamboats, c. 1858 -- 'Engine room, U.S. Armory, Springfield, Mass.' -- Steam shovel, Cobourg & Peterborough Railway, Canada West (Ontario) 1853-4 -- Victoria Bridge : steam dredge, 1858 -- Victoria Bridge : center tube, March 1859 -- Victoria Bridge : laying the foundation stone of No. 11 pier -- Captain M.C. Meigs beside stop valves for his Washington Aqueduct, 1859 -- The Cabin John Bridge under construction, May 14, 1858 -- The Capitol dome and Senate wing under construction, Washington, D.C., c. 1861 -- The Parliament Buildings under construction, Ottawa, 1862 -- Atlantic cable : stowing cable aboard the U.S.S. Niagara -- Atlantic cable : cable-laying machinery on board the Great Eastern -- Installation of additional pipe, High Bridge, Croton Aqueduct, 1861 -- Erie Canal : Schoharie Creek aqueduct and dam, 1864 -- Niagara Suspension Bridge, 1859 -- Niagara Suspension Bridge, 1859 -- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Martinsburg, [W.] Va., probably 1858 -- The Trevithick under construction, Grand Trunk Railway, Point St. Charles, 1859 -- U.S. Military Railroads Construction Corps, Devereux Station, Va., c. 1863 -- Building a bridge across the north fork of the Rappahannock River, Va., August 1862 -- High Bridge across the Appomattox with temporary trestle, 1865 -- Union Pacific Railroad : temporary bridge and permanent bridge under construction, Green River, Wyo., 1868 -- Union Pacific Railroad : building permanent bridge, Green River, Wyo., 1868 -- 'Interior section of the Chicago Lake Tunnel', c. 1865 -- Hoosac Tunnel: west portal under construction, 1874 -- Hoosac Tunnel: miners using Burleigh drills, c. 1870 -- Beach's pneumatic subway, New York, 1870 -- The Covington and Cincinnati Suspension Bridge under construction, 1866 -- John A. Roebling and consulting engineers at Niagara Falls, 1869 -- The Brooklyn tower of the Brooklyn Bridge under construction, September 1872 -- Susquehanna River Bridge, Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad -- Bollman truss bridge, 21 st section, B. & O.R.R., c. 1870 -- Winona Bridge, Chicago & Northwestern Railway, 1871 -- Intercolonial Railway bridge over the south-west branch of the Miramichi : 'dredging machinery used in sinking caisson of pier F', September 24, 1872 -- Intercolonial Railway bridge over the north-west branch of the Miramichi : 'dredge pumps in operation in foundation of pier X', May 16, 1873 -- The St. Louis Bridge under construction, 1873 -- Block House Viaduct, Utica, Ithaca & Elmira Railroad, 1873 -- Point Bridge, Pittsburgh, c. 1877 -- The Kentucky River Bridge under construction, Cincinnati Southern Railway, 1877 -- Hydraulic mining, California: 'Piping the bank' ; 'The pipe and tank.' -- Imperial Refinery, near Oil City, Pa., c. 1873 -- 'Burning of the Imperial Refinery', September 10, 1875 -- 'Looking down the Franklin Tram Road', near Hancock, Mich., c. 1868 -- Diamond drill, near Silver Islet, Ont., c. 1878 -- The Onondaga salt industry: interior of a salt block ; salt yards near Syracuse, N.Y -- Coal breaker, near Mauch Chunk, Pa., c. 1880 -- Blast furnaces, Lackawanna Iron & Coal Company, Scranton, Pa., 1892 -- Bessemer converter, West Superior Iron & Steel Company, Duluth, Minn., c. 1890 -- Templeton Asbestos mine, near Perkins Village, Que., c. 1892 -- Printing room, American Print Works, Fall River, Mass., 1868-70 -- 'Interior Amoskeag Steam Fire Engine Works, Manchester, N.H.' -- 'Copper rolling mill.' From a stereograph, c. 1875 -- 'Putnam Machine Company's shop, Fitchburg, Mass.', c. 1875 -- Shearing machine by Wm. Sellers & Company, Philadelphia -- The pumps, Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia -- Double Corliss engine, Mechanics Mill, Fall River, Mass., 1868-70 -- The Corliss Centennial Engine, Philadelphia, 1876 -- Gratiot hoisting engine, Calumet & Hecla Mining Company, Calumet, Mich -- Holly pumping engine, Saratoga Springs, N.Y -- Tip-Top, Mount Washington Railway, c. 1875 -- Pennsylvania Railroad, Altoona, Pa. : erecting shop -- Pennsylvania Railroad, Altoona, Pa. : steam hammer -- Windmill water station, B. & O.R.R., Confluence, Pa., 1871 -- Grand Central Depot, New York, c. 1872 -- Chatham Square Station, Manhattan Railway, New York, 1880 -- Lifting barge, Quebec Harbour Commission, 1877 -- Cayuga Chief self-raking reaper, c. 1870 -- Champion traction straw burner, Waterous Engine Works Co., Brantford, Ont., c.1890 -- Steam threshing -- The Mormon Tabernacle under construction, Salt Lake City, c. 1866 -- The Pension Building under construction, Washington, D.C., April 20, 1885 -- The Reliance Building under construction, Chicago, 28 July 28, 1894 -- Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, c. 1902 -- Interior of snowshed, Canadian Pacific Railway, British Columbia, c. 1890 -- C.P.R. rotary snowplow, Revelstoke, B.C., c. 1890 -- Refrigeration compressors in erecting shop, Frick Company, Waynesboro, Pa., c. 1895 -- Gun shop, Washington Navy Yard, 1898 -- Interior of caisson, Bellefontaine Bridge, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, February 10, 1893 -- Hudson River tunnel shield under construction in Great Britain, March 1890 -- Westinghouse alternators, Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 -- Boiler room, Toronto Electric Light Company, Toronto, 1897-- B. & O.R.R. electric locomotive No. 1, Camden Station, Baltimore, July 1, 1895 -- Installation of the second penstock of the Hydraulic Station Number Two, Niagara Falls, N.Y., 1898 -- Power-House Number One, Niagara Falls, N.Y. : wheel-pit extension under construction, December 1897 -- Power-House Number One, Niagara Falls, N.Y. : installation of a Westinghouse generator, c. 1898 -- The Burden Water Wheel, Troy, N.Y., c. 1897.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0879235500
9780879235505
0889102473
9780889102477

Sujet:

Photography in engineering History 19th century.
Civil engineering United States History 19th century.
Civil engineering Canada History 19th century.
Mechanical engineering United States History 19th century.
Mechanical engineering Canada History 19th century.
Public works United States History 19th century.
Public works Canada History 19th century.
Engineering United States History 19th century.
Photography
Ingénierie États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Ingénierie États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie en ingénierie Histoire 19e siècle.
Génie mécanique États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Génie mécanique Canada Histoire 19e siècle.
Travaux publics Canada Histoire 19e siècle.
Génie civil États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Génie civil Canada Histoire 19e siècle.
Engineering
Civil engineering
Mechanical engineering
Photography in engineering
Public works
Canada
United States
Photography Special subjects Engineering industries

Classification/genre:

History

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Localisation: Bibliothèque main 104006
Cote: TR702.G73 (ID:85-B16317)
Statut: Disponible