This is the story of how the Brooklyn Bridge--a structure of unprecedented size and technology--was built during an age of remarkable innovation. This structure was not only a modern engineering feat of imagination, fortitude, and skill, it also was a towering beacon of human triumph. Author Jeffrey Richman has gathered 253 nineteenth-century images, many never before published on the printed page, including engineering drawings, photographs, stereographs (seen in 3D using a viewer), woodcuts, and colored lithographs. He also specially created several anaglyphs--images generated from stereographs--offering the reader the sensation of being at the construction site as the towers begin to rise.
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