Browse Items (50 total)
- Tags: Design and construction
The place without roads
'The place without roads', Harpers
Tags: 2000s; 2003; 2003-12-1; 21st century; Blakely, Alexander; civil engineering; Description and travel; Design and construction; Engineering; Highway engineering; Russia; Siberia; Siberia (Russia); Trans-Siberian Highway
The last cold-war monument
'The last cold-war monument', Harpers
Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-8-1; Architecture; Burdick, Alan; Design and construction; Engineering; Monuments; New Mexico; Radioactive waste disposal; Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (N.M.)
Designs for driving
'Designs for driving', Harpers
Tags: 1980s; 1983; 1983-10-1; Automobiles; Design and construction; Engineering; Foreign; Kaus, Robert M.; Mechanical Engineering; Performance; United States
Automotive genius
'Automotive genius', Harpers
Tags: 1970s; 1979; 1979-12-1; Assembly-line methods; Automobiles; Caricatures and cartoons; Design and construction; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Rauch, Hans-Georg; United States
The car of the future
'The car of the future', Harpers
Tags: 1970s; 1972; 1972-5-1; Automobiles; Design and construction; Engineering; Forecasting; Jedlicka, Daniel A.; Mechanical Engineering; United States
The case against the supersonic transport
'The case against the supersonic transport', Harpers
Tags: 1960s; 1966; 1966-7-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; Concorde (Jet transports); Design and construction; Engineering; Europe; Gibson, John E.; High-speed aeronautics; Supersonic planes; Supersonic transport planes; United States
What�s to become of architecture?
'What�s to become of architecture?', Harpers
Tags: 1960s; 1964; 1964-6-1; Architecture; Architecture and society; Design and construction; Engineering; Lynes, Russell; Modern; Skyscrapers; United States
Shell housing
'Shell housing', Harpers
Tags: 1960s; 1962; 1962-4-1; Architecture; Construction industry; Consumer credit; Corrupt practices; Costs; Design and construction; Do-it-yourself products industry; Dwellings; Engineering; Home ownership; Housing; Production standards; Purchasing; Single family; United States; Watkins, A. M. (Arthur Martin)
California�s $2 billion thirst
'California�s $2 billion thirst', Harpers
Tags: 1960s; 1961; 1961-3-1; California; California Water Plan; civil engineering; Design and construction; Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald) Brown; Engineering; Feather River; Flood control; Irrigation farming; Kossen, Sydney; Oroville Dam (Calif.); San Joaquin Valley
The biggest office building yet . . . worse luck
'The biggest office building yet . . . worse luck', Harpers
Tags: 1960; 1960-5-1; 1960s; Architecture; Buildings; Design and construction; Engineering; Erwin S. Wolfson; etc.; Grand Central City (New York; Kaufmann, Edgar; N.Y: Proposed building); New York; New York (N.Y.); New York (State); Pietro Belluschi; Public architecture; Skyscrapers; structures; Walter Gropius
Come back Detroit, all is forgiven
'Come back Detroit, all is forgiven', Harpers
Tags: 1950s; 1959; 1959-9-1; Agle, Janet; Automobile ownership; Automobiles; Design and construction; Engineering; Humor; Maintenance and repair; Mechanical Engineering; Sports cars; United States
The new jet air liners
'The new jet air liners', Harpers
Tags: 1950s; 1958; 1958-6-1; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airlines; Comet (Jet transports); Cost of operation; Design and construction; Engineering; Jet bombers; Jet transports; Langewiesche, Wolfgang; Safety measures; United States
The Edsel and how it got that way
'The Edsel and how it got that way', Harpers
Tags: 1950s; 1957; 1957-9-1; Automobiles; Design and construction; Edsel automobile; Edsel Ford; Engineering; Ford Motor Company; Henry Ford; Larrabee, Eric; Marketing; Marketing research; Mechanical Engineering; Social aspects; United States
The second transport revolution
'The second transport revolution', Harpers
Tags: 1950s; 1957; 1957-3-1; Barloon, Marvin J.; civil engineering; Design and construction; Engineering; Express highways; Freight; Inland water transportation; Piggyback transportation; Pipelines; Railroads; Transportation; Trucking; United States
How safe are the new cars?
'How safe are the new cars?', Harpers
Tags: 1950s; 1957; 1957-2-1; Automobiles; Crash injuries; Design and construction; Engineering; Ford automobile; Kearney, Paul W. (Paul William); Mechanical Engineering; Research; Safety appliances; Safety measures; United States
Successor to the Model T
'Successor to the Model T', Harpers
Tags: 1950s; 1957; 1957-2-1; Automobiles; Compact cars; Design and construction; Engineering; Foreign; Mechanical Engineering; Sorensen, Charles E.; United States
Scripture according to G.E.
'Scripture according to G.E.', Harpers
Tags: 1950s; 1956; 1956-3-1; BibleO.TIsaiah; Design and construction; Electrical Engineering; Engineering; General Electric; Humor; Industrial buildings; Kentucky
The great assault on the Arctic
'The great assault on the Arctic', Harpers
Tags: 1945-; 1950s; 1953-1961; 1955; 1955-8-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Arctic regions; Bush pilots; Canada; Design and construction; DEW Line; Engineering; Foreign relations; Roberts, Leslie; Strategic aspects; United States
The small cars
'The small cars', Harpers
Tags: 1950s; 1955; 1955-3-1; Automobile ownership; Automobiles; Compact cars; Design and construction; Engineering; Foreign; Lafore, Laurence Davis; Mechanical Engineering; United States
And fractions drive me mad
'And fractions drive me mad', Harpers
Tags: 1950s; 1953-1961; 1954; 1954-9-1; civil engineering; Colorado; Colorado River; Design and construction; Echo Park Dam (Colo.); Engineering; Error analysis (Mathematics); Flood dams and reservoirs; Politics and government; United States; United StatesBureau of Reclamation; Voto, Bernard Augustine De
How we invented the airplane
'How we invented the airplane', Harpers
Tags: 1950s; 1953; 1953-6-1; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; Design and construction; Engineering; Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters); Orville Wright; United States; Wilbur Wright; Wright, Orville
We fetched ourselves a medical center
'We fetched ourselves a medical center', Harpers
Tags: 1950s; 1952; 1952-6-1; Design and construction; Federal aid to hospitals; Fund raising; Furnas, J. C. (Joseph Chamberlain); Hunterdon County; Hunterdon Medical Center (Hunterdon County; Medical centers; Medicine; N.J.); New Jersey; Staffing, Funding and Institutions
North to find iron
'North to find iron', Harpers
Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-12-1; Bush pilots; Description and travel; Design and construction; Engineering; Geological mapping; Iron mines and mining; Martin, John Bartlow; Mining and Explosives; Production; Québec; Railroads; Ungava Peninsula; Ungava Peninsula (Québec)
Railroads before hymns
'Railroads before hymns', Harpers
Tags: 1950; 1950-10-1; 1950s; Capitalists and financiers; Cornelius Vanderbilt; Design and construction; Engineering; Humor; Mechanical Engineering; Railroads; Religious life; United States
What the Wrights really invented
'What the Wrights really invented', Harpers
Tags: 1950; 1950-6-1; 1950s; Aeronautical engineers; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; Design and construction; Engineering; History; Langewiesche, Wolfgang; Orville Wright; United States; Wilbur Wright
The road that food built
'The road that food built', Harpers
Tags: 1950; 1950-6-1; 1950s; Central America; civil engineering; Design and construction; Engineering; Inter-American Highway; Labor productivity; Nutrition; Road construction industry; Road construction workers; Stearns, Myron M. (Myron Morris)
Those big fat cars
'Those big fat cars', Harpers
Tags: 1940s; 1949; 1949-4-1; Automobile industry and trade; Automobiles; Design and construction; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Sinks, Alfred H.; Sizes; United States
Youth builds a railroad
'Youth builds a railroad', Harpers
Tags: 1940s; 1948; 1948-1-1; Design and construction; Employment; Engineering; John, Robert St; Mechanical Engineering; Railroads; Robert St. John; Youth; Yugoslavia
The telegraph trail
'The telegraph trail', Harpers
Tags: 1940s; 1946; 1946-10-1; Alaska Highway; Arctic regions; Design and construction; Engineering; History; Neuberger, Richard L. (Richard Lewis); Telecommunications; Telegraph lines
Flying high
'Flying high', Harpers
Tags: 1940s; 1946; 1946-2-1; Aerodynamics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; Design and construction; Engineering; High altitude aeronautics; Langewiesche, Wolfgang; Research; United States