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John Frank Stevens : Civil Engineer
One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Ro...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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