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Colossal: Engineering Modernity - Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, and Panama Canal
Colossal Engineering Modernity - Suez Canal Statue of Liberty Eiffel Tower and Panama Canal
Author: Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
The Suez Canal came first, in 1869; the Panama Canal, last, in 1914; in between in rapid succession, came the Statue of Liberty, 1886, and the Eiffel Tower, 1889. Brilliant, counterintutive, 'Colossal' shows that these awesome monoliths - each usually seen alone as a wonder - have a single, tightly entwined history. Three Frenchmen - Ferdinand d...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781934772768
ISBN-10: 1934772763
Publication Date: 7/30/2009
Pages: 224
Edition: illustrated edition
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Publisher: Periscope
Book Type: Hardcover
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