The Bridge at Quebec (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14527791 |
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| Authors | Thomas R Winpenny (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 173-175 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2002.0046 |
| OpenAlex | W1971007292 |
| Language | EN |
The late Mel Kranzberg enjoyed reminding people that "technology is a very human activity." What better example could anyone find of this great truth than the saga of the 1,800-foot cantilevered Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence River, originally conceived in 1851 and yet not finally completed [End Page 173] until 1918, following two dramatic accidents in 1907 and 1916 that killed seventy-five and eleven respectively? William Middleton, trained as a civil engineer but now writing transportation history, conducted a thorough search of the National Archives of Canada, the libraries of Laval and McGill Universities, and archives at the Smithsonian and Hagley museums to reconstruct this political and engineering account of a bridge that many wanted but no one seemed willing to fully fund
Art history · Bridge (graph theory) · Library science · Political science · Politics · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Law · Medicine · Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
| Highly cited | No |
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