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Canals (Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design and Engineering)
Canals - Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design and Engineering Author:Robert J. Kapsch A richly illustrated history of America's first transportation system. Canals describes the development of these waterways in their heyday and shows the varied structuresincluding locks, lockhouses, aqueducts, bridges, dams, and tunnelsthey engendered. It provides capsule tours of thirty-five canals and a journey along two of... more » the most famous: the Chesapeake & Ohio (now a National Park) and the Morris Canal (largely lost to development). Includes a CD-ROM containing all the images. 746 illustrations/photographs.« less