Reference Guide to Famous Engineering Landmarks of the World: Bridges, Tunnels, Dams, Roads and Other Structures

There is a group of reference books which is particularly useful for answering specialised questions liable to be left out of the more general works. This is a good example. It gives short descriptions of 600 of the most significant engineering (or strictly, civil engineering) achievements in the history of the world from the Sadd el‐Kafara dam in Egypt dating from about 2900 bc, to the Millennium Tower in Tokyo, which will be the tallest building in the world when completed some time after 2000. Some articles cover structures no longer in existence (for example the Seven Wonders of the...