Engineering in plain sight : an illustrated field guide to the constructed environment
(2023)
By:
Hillhouse, Grady
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
624/HILLHOUSE,G
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
San Francisco : No Starch Press, [2023]
DESCRIPTION
xi, 251 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781718502321, 171850232X, 9781718502321
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
Electrical grid -- Communications -- Roadways -- Bridges and tunnels -- Railways -- Dams, levees, and coastal structures -- Municipal water and wastewater -- Construction
"This illustrated book extends the field guide genre from natural phenomena to human-made structures, making their design and construction approachable and understandable to non-engineers. Readers will learn to identify characteristics of the electrical grid, roadways, railways, bridges, tunnels, waterways, and more"--