For the past two years and more we've been working on a digital
collection of our holdings in 19th century bridge construction, with the
great help of an LSCA grant. Its purpose is to provide a wide range of
material from our collection to aid in teaching about 19th century
technology, and also to give restorers of historic structures access to
the 19th century technical material. The collection presently contains
30 volumes, which we hope to continue to add to. We have tried to
provide a book-like functionality on the site (and this has taught us
that it's very difficult to do on a computer what an actual book does so
easily). Certain aspects, such as the glossaries, and links to other web
sites, are not fully developed, but if we wait until everything is done,
we'll never make it public. So I'd like to invite interested exlibris
readers to take a look at the site and send any comments you care to
make. The site is at <http://bridges.lib.lehigh.edu/> and comments
should be emailed to inspc@lehigh.edu. Thanks very much. Phil Metzger
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