The Big Book of Bridges

Bridges help us get across obstacles and serve as an important transportation link. At the same time, they can be masterpieces of architecture, true works of art. They demonstrate the beauty and ingenuity of engineering design.In this book, you will... find everything about the different types of bridges, how they were built, and how they transformed over time. You will also learn about what "arches," "trusses," "cantilevers," "piers," and other engineering terms are.The author of the book, Ayrat Bagautdinov, is an architectural historian, tour guide, and lecturer, and the head of the company "Through the Eyes of an Engineer."There is an amazing profession - engineering. It is thanks to this that the world around us develops. Houses and towers, railways and cars, trains and airplanes, phones and computers - all of this is created by them. But perhaps the greatest engineer in the world is nature. And while we can learn a lot from it, at times we have to struggle against the elements: for example, laying tunnels through rocks or bridging turbulent rivers with special structures - bridges.