Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The 1859 Wheeling Custom House: A Harbinger of Iron and Steel Skeletal Framing -- Charles Ellet Jr. (1810-1862): Portrait of an Engineer -- A Thoroughfare Through the Howling Wilderness: The Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike -- The Pulaski Skyway-Railway Economic Theory Applied to Superhighway Design -- James Finley and the Origins of the Modern Suspension Bridge -- French Movable Dams in America -- Building the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway -- Benjamin Franklin Thomas and the Introduction of the French Needle Dam into the United States -- John Jervis and the Hydraulic Design of the Old Croton Aqueduct -- The Muskingum Navigation -- French Movable Dams on the Great Kanawha River -- The Little Kanawha Navigation -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors.