Building America (Building America (Blackbirch Hardcover))
By Unknown Author.
Description
Although people had talked about building a bridge across the Golden Gate waterway since the 1800's, it was Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal that financed it and made the Golden Gate Bridge project possible. The sheer size of San Francisco Bay, and the fierce winds and waves that roll into it from the Pacific, prompted many engineers to say that the bridge couldn't be built. Innovative design and brilliant engineering, however, enabled the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time to become a reality. Today, this bright orange structure stands as proof of the...
ISBN(s)
1567111068, 9781567111064