Carol Poh Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Poh Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol Poh |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER C P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cleveland Heights University Heights Public Library |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
James Marston Fitch
Reviewed by: James Marston Fitch: Selected Writings on Architecture, Preservation, and the Built Environment Carol Poh (bio) James Marston Fitch: Selected Writings on Architecture, Preservation, and the Built Environment. Edited by Martica Sawin . New York: W. W. Norton, 2007 Pp. 312. $27.95. "In architecture there are no spectators: there are only participants." This dictum provides the overarching theme of this wide-ranging collection of the wr…
The Iron Bridge
Reviewed by: The Iron Bridge: Symbol of the Industrial Revolution Carol Poh Miller (bio) The Iron Bridge: Symbol of the Industrial Revolution. By Neil Cossons and Barrie Trinder. 2nd ed.Chichester, West Sussex: Phillimore, 2002. Pp. xiv+154. £25.00. Even before it was completed, the Iron Bridge spanning the River Severn at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England, had become a subject for artists. After it opened, on New Year's Day, 1781, the bridge at…
Invisible Giants
Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers. By Herbert H. Harwood Jr. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+342. $49.95
Rails across the Mississippi
These books offer fresh scholarship on two men, of different centuries, who stand in the pantheon of American civil engineers. One looks anew at a single, celebrated project; the other considers the life and oeuvre of a figure who deserves to be more widely known
Grand Central Terminal
In Grand Central Terminal, Kurt Schlichting, a professor of sociology at Fairfield University, tells the colorful story of a great railway station, emphasizing its significance as "a triumph of technology" (p. 83). Four chapters cover, respectively, the terminal's predecessor, its engineering, its architecture, and its influence on the surrounding midtown Manhattan neighborhood
Spans in Time
Spans in Time handsomely showcases the results of a statewide inventory of historic bridges funded by the Federal Highway Administration and completed in 1991 by two firms, Fraser Design of Loveland, Colorado, and Hess, Roise and Company of Minneapolis. The book presents a brief history of Nebraska bridges, derived from a historic overview prepared by Charlene K. Roise and adapted for publication by Clayton B. Fraser. There then follow an appendi…
Great American Bridges and Dams by Donald C. Jackson
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 1061 ness of these proposals only points out the care taken with the heart of this book, an adroit exposition of modern tunneling technology. Gregory K. Dreicer Mr. Dreicer is an architectural conservator who specializes in high-rise buildings and a doctoral student in the history of technology at Cornell University. Great American Bridges and Dams. By Donald C. Jackson. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 19…
Great American Bridges and Dams
Bridges: Spanning the Nation. Dams: Controlling a Precious Resource. Saving Bridges and Dams. Guide to the Guide. THE BRIDGES AND DAMS. New England. Mid-Atlantic. South. Midwest. Southwest. West. Epilogue: The Ones That Got Away. Further Reading. Information Sources. Index
Building the Lone Star
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 699 Building the Lone Star: An Illustrated Guide to Historic Sites. By T. Lindsay Baker. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986. Pp. xxii + 333; illustrations, appendix, index. $37.50. Building the Lone Star is a personal guide to the historic engineering works of Texas. T. Lindsay Baker, curator of agriculture and tech nology at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, writes that h…
Building the Lone Star
Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland
This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Books at EngagedScholarship@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Cleveland Memory by an authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Watson, Sarah Ruth, Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland: Past and Present (1981). Cleveland Memory. Book 30. http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clevmembks/30
Industrial archaeology in the USA
When built in 1911–12, the Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock at Cleveland, Ohio, was the largest ore‐unloading dock on the Great Lakes. The dock featured four Hulett unloaders with bucket capacities of 17 tons; a 15‐ton‐capacity ore stocking bridge; and a one‐million‐ton ore storage yard. The Hulett unloader, invented and developed by Clevelander George H. Hulett during the 1890s, revolutionized the handling of iron ore by reducing labor costs and un…
Industrial archaeology in the USA
When built in 1911–12, the Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock at Cleveland, Ohio, was the largest ore‐unloading dock on the Great Lakes. The dock featured four Hulett unloaders with bucket capacities of 17 tons; a 15‐ton‐capacity ore stocking bridge; and a one‐million‐ton ore storage yard. The Hulett unloader, invented and developed by Clevelander George H. Hulett during the 1890s, revolutionized the handling of iron ore by reducing labor costs and un…
Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland
This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Books at EngagedScholarship@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Cleveland Memory by an authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Watson, Sarah Ruth, Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland: Past and Present (1981). Cleveland Memory. Book 30. http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clevmembks/30
Industrial archaeology in the USA
When built in 1911–12, the Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock at Cleveland, Ohio, was the largest ore‐unloading dock on the Great Lakes. The dock featured four Hulett unloaders with bucket capacities of 17 tons; a 15‐ton‐capacity ore stocking bridge; and a one‐million‐ton ore storage yard. The Hulett unloader, invented and developed by Clevelander George H. Hulett during the 1890s, revolutionized the handling of iron ore by reducing labor costs and un…
Building the Lone Star
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 699 Building the Lone Star: An Illustrated Guide to Historic Sites. By T. Lindsay Baker. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986. Pp. xxii + 333; illustrations, appendix, index. $37.50. Building the Lone Star is a personal guide to the historic engineering works of Texas. T. Lindsay Baker, curator of agriculture and tech nology at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, writes that h…
Building the Lone Star
Great American Bridges and Dams by Donald C. Jackson
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 1061 ness of these proposals only points out the care taken with the heart of this book, an adroit exposition of modern tunneling technology. Gregory K. Dreicer Mr. Dreicer is an architectural conservator who specializes in high-rise buildings and a doctoral student in the history of technology at Cornell University. Great American Bridges and Dams. By Donald C. Jackson. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 19…
Great American Bridges and Dams
Bridges: Spanning the Nation. Dams: Controlling a Precious Resource. Saving Bridges and Dams. Guide to the Guide. THE BRIDGES AND DAMS. New England. Mid-Atlantic. South. Midwest. Southwest. West. Epilogue: The Ones That Got Away. Further Reading. Information Sources. Index
Spans in Time
Spans in Time handsomely showcases the results of a statewide inventory of historic bridges funded by the Federal Highway Administration and completed in 1991 by two firms, Fraser Design of Loveland, Colorado, and Hess, Roise and Company of Minneapolis. The book presents a brief history of Nebraska bridges, derived from a historic overview prepared by Charlene K. Roise and adapted for publication by Clayton B. Fraser. There then follow an appendi…
Grand Central Terminal
In Grand Central Terminal, Kurt Schlichting, a professor of sociology at Fairfield University, tells the colorful story of a great railway station, emphasizing its significance as "a triumph of technology" (p. 83). Four chapters cover, respectively, the terminal's predecessor, its engineering, its architecture, and its influence on the surrounding midtown Manhattan neighborhood
Rails across the Mississippi
These books offer fresh scholarship on two men, of different centuries, who stand in the pantheon of American civil engineers. One looks anew at a single, celebrated project; the other considers the life and oeuvre of a figure who deserves to be more widely known
The Iron Bridge
Reviewed by: The Iron Bridge: Symbol of the Industrial Revolution Carol Poh Miller (bio) The Iron Bridge: Symbol of the Industrial Revolution. By Neil Cossons and Barrie Trinder. 2nd ed.Chichester, West Sussex: Phillimore, 2002. Pp. xiv+154. £25.00. Even before it was completed, the Iron Bridge spanning the River Severn at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England, had become a subject for artists. After it opened, on New Year's Day, 1781, the bridge at…
Invisible Giants
Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers. By Herbert H. Harwood Jr. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+342. $49.95
James Marston Fitch
Reviewed by: James Marston Fitch: Selected Writings on Architecture, Preservation, and the Built Environment Carol Poh (bio) James Marston Fitch: Selected Writings on Architecture, Preservation, and the Built Environment. Edited by Martica Sawin . New York: W. W. Norton, 2007 Pp. 312. $27.95. "In architecture there are no spectators: there are only participants." This dictum provides the overarching theme of this wide-ranging collection of the wr…
History (10 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Art history (6 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Library science (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Bridge (graph theory) (3 works)