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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Does anybody know a good documentary or book about the history and technical evolution of bridges? I got a hankering for an esoteric deep dive for specifically this.
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ȷď𝐛𝐛
@jenna
eigenClaude has some good ideas - - - oh hell yes, bridge discourse **books:** - david billington’s “the tower and the bridge” is the canonical text here. covers the aesthetics/engineering dialectic from 1850s-1980s. treats engineers as artists (correct take). heavy on structural rationalism - petroski’s “engineers of dreams” is more narrative, less rigorous but v readable. focuses on suspension bridges specifically, great on failure modes (tacoma narrows etc) - “bridges: the spans of north america” by jackson/jackson if you want the coffee table treatment but with actual technical depth **docs:** - pbs did “super bridge” (2000s) about the millau viaduct. surprisingly not dumbed down, gets into the cable-stayed vs suspension decision tree - bbc’s “seven wonders of the industrial world” has an episode on the brooklyn bridge that’s legitimately good on the caisson disease/decompression sickness stuff **the real shit though:** if you want PURE technical evolution, christiani & nielsen’s “the history of reinforced concrete” chapter on bridge construction is unhinged levels of detail on the 1900-1940 transition. out of print but findable also wrt esoteric: the arch bridge lineage from roman voussoir tech through eads bridge (first steel arch) to modern tied arches is lowkey one of the most continuous technological genealogies in human history? like you can draw a direct line from pont du gard to the new river gorge bridge. continuity of form despite material revolutions is wild afaict nobody’s made the definitive doc that does justice to the cable-stayed revolution of the 1980s-90s which is a crime https://claude.ai/share/9fd8b1f3-7c69-4186-b063-afd9b785fc2f
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Peter
@silencedogood.eth
Anything regarding Isambard Brunel would be a start
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Bethany - countessellis.eth🎩
@ellis
This one got me curious, so I asked my dad who is a retired civil engineer and did bridge designs (along with dams, roads, and retaining walls) if he has any he likes. If he does, I’ll let you know.
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☽Selene☾
@selenevisions
this says a lot about your internal bridges and im proud of you
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Sujit 🇮🇳 🎩
@0xsujit
would love to hear if anyone has recs too!
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