Download or read book From the Ha penny Bridge to the Golden Gate written by Joan Wahl-Countryman and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Is that really you, Grammy?" My grandson had discovered my old Irish passport and wanted to know more about the photograph. Yes, I was young once, in another time and place. I had crossed the Ha'penny Bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin and worked hard to save enough money to emigrate to America. When I had the opportunity, I traveled with friends across this vast country of America and found the great loves of my life not far from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.Here I am so many years later, trying to make sense of life's journey.
Download or read book The Bridge that Couldn t be Built Research Project Golden Gate Bridge written by Sandra Beyer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1 (A), San Francisco State University (Englsih Department), course: San Francisco, 8 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND In the late 1800's traveling to San Francisco has not been easy. By sea the city was always readily accessible, from the south, land travelers could journey uninterrupted up the peninsula that separated the Pacific from the Bay. But travelers from the north and east did not have such ready access to the city. They could turn southward when they came to the water and make the arduous two-day journey around the Bay and up the peninsula, or they could seek conveyance by water across the unpredictable and sometimes treacherous tides of San Francisco Bay. There was a ferry service provided and the boats ran on a regular, planned basis and carried tens of thousands of people across the Bay to work in the morning and returning home in the evening. However, the ferries were quite slow and unpredictable. If the seas were high ferries might not sail or at least be terribly offschedule. The tricky Bay fogs sometimes made the journey frightening and dangerous. In heavy seas and high winds, the ferryboats sometimes pitched and tossed wildly, leaving the passengers ill and terrified. The need for a bridge over the Golden Gate was obvious and many people might have wondered at that time if the narrow passageway of sea between Lime and Ford points would be ever bridged.
Download or read book An Encyclopaedia of World Bridges written by David McFetrich and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridges are one of the most important artefacts constructed by man, the structures having had an incalculable effect on the development of trade and civilisation throughout the world. Their construction has led to continuing advances in civil engineering technology, leading to bigger spans and the use of new materials. Their failures, too, whether from an inadequate understanding of engineering principles or as a result of natural catastrophes or warfare, have often caused immense hardship as a result of lost lives or broken communications. In this book, a sister publication to his earlier An Encyclopaedia of British Bridges (Pen & Sword 2019), David McFetrich gives brief descriptions of some 1200 bridges from more than 170 countries around the world. They represent a wide range of different types of structure (such as beam, cantilever, stayed and suspension bridges). Although some of the pictures are of extremely well-known structures, many are not so widely recognisable and a separate section of the book includes more than seventy lists of bridges with distinctly unusual characteristics in their design, usage and history.
Download or read book Bridges written by Victoria Charles and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bridge is a link between two worlds, a point of tension between two separate and often disparate locations. Free, belonging neither to one region or another, the bridge imposes upon the landscape and defies nature. Its existence embodies the will of mankind to construct these necessary bonds between people and places. A symbol of progress and innovation, the bridge, anonymous demonstration of the mastery and the durability of new techniques, is gradually becoming more and more light and fluid, constantly defying stateoftheart technology. As veritable aesthetic creations, bridges appear today not only as examples of masterful engineering, but also as incredible works of art. With its magnificent photographs, this book invites the reader to rediscover these modernday sculptures.
Download or read book The Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco California written by Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco California written by Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Mono written by David Carle and published by Phalarope Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1934 and 1941, the City of Los Angeles sent 2,000 men to work on aqueducts and an 11-mile tunnel beneath volcanic craters in the Mono Lake Basin of the Eastern Sierra. MONO tells the story of fish biologist Justin Hearth, as he surveys the waters of the Mono Lake watershed, falls in love with that landscape, and also with Alisa Stohler. Her family had been forced from a farm in the Owens Valley in 1930 and is now caught up in changes brought by the distant city's unending thirst for growth. This story explores the minds and hearts of a generation shaped by the Great Depression and facing the threat of world war. MONO confronts the question, "What were they thinking back then, as choices were made that endangered Mono Lake and its tributary streams?"
Download or read book The Golden Gate Bridge written by Rebecca Stanborough and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bridges written by Parkstone Press and published by Parkstone Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A symbol of progress and innovation, the bridge is gradually becoming more and more light and fluid, constantly defying state-of-the-art technology. With its magnificent photographs, this book invites the reader to rediscover these modern-day sculptures.
Download or read book The Bush Blaster Battalion written by Robert Roy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the little known story of the World War II Army Anti-Aircraft units in the Pacific, and how they helped win the war.Discover how and why one ack-ack battalion became known as the Bush Blasters. Learn how the men adapted to the danger, the heat, the rain, the mud, the mosquitoes, the misery and the boredom of life in the field. Read about strange and fascinating local customs of the New Guinea and Filipino people, from headhunting to John the Baptist. Find out how the Filipino people continued to fight and survive during years of Japanese occupation, and how they reacted to the arrival of the Allies. Learn the amazing hardships the Philippines endured, and how quickly conditions changed after the Allies arrived. Read letters from home, and how the war was fought in the cornfields and feedlots of the Midwest, as well as at the front. Get a feeling of the longings for home and the girls they left behind. See what memories still linger fifty-seven years after the war."He has quite a talent for writing." -W. H. Ownby, local draft board official"By the way, Kenny informs me that I'm now a literary sensation in the field of journalism. It seems that the local readers of the Journal Gazette are being held breathless by some of my letters." -Excerpt from one of John's letters
Download or read book Tao the Golden Gate written by Osho and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
