Moving the obelisks: a chapter in engineering history in which the Vatican obelisk in Rome in 1586 was moved by muscle power, and a study of more recent similar moves

• • Is type of work 

    Books

By

• • Has author 

    Dibner, Bern

Publisher

• Publication

  Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1970

• Year

  • Publication year 

    1970

Is about

• Subject

  • As subject 

    obelisk
  • As subject 

    techniek
  • As subject 

    transport

• Period

  1586-1880

Type

• Language

  • Has publication language 

    English

Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  Oorspr. uitgave: Norwalk, Ct. : Burndy Library, 1950 (Publication ; 6)

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