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This title explores and explains how the Golden Gate Bridge was built. The bridge's construction is described in terms of the engineering process. The book explores why the bridge was built and describes the design stages and technologies used during construction. The book also describes the challenges builders faced while building the bridge.

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9781491482001

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"Drawings and photographs, along with easy-to-read text, trace the engineering problems of building a bridge to withstand the ""natural forces"" of the San Francisco Bay. They were solved, though, and this book tells readers how.-- ""Book Links, ""Architecture and Construction"""" In a welcome change from the normal series approach, these titles place each featured structure into the context of its natural and cultural environments while discussing how it reflects the society that built it. Authors explain engineering concepts, challenges, and construction processes so clearly that readers will understand how engineers overcame seemingly impossible problems to design and build these magnificent structures. . . .Good choice to introduce landmark structures and the engineering that made them possible.-- ""School Library Journal"""

Drawings and photographs, along with easy-to-read text, trace the engineering problems of building a bridge to withstand the natural forces of the San Francisco Bay. They were solved, though, and this book tells readers how.-- Book Links, Architecture and Construction In a welcome change from the normal series approach, these titles place each featured structure into the context of its natural and cultural environments while discussing how it reflects the society that built it. Authors explain engineering concepts, challenges, and construction processes so clearly that readers will understand how engineers overcame seemingly impossible problems to design and build these magnificent structures. . . .Good choice to introduce landmark structures and the engineering that made them possible.-- School Library Journal

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Rebecca Stanborough spent her teenage years in a ramshackle community house with 21 people and two bathrooms. Now she lives and writes in St. Augustine, Florida, surrounded by alligators, island rats, and roseate spoonbills, none of whom has ever asked to share her bathroom.

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