
Understanding the World's Greatest Structures: Science and Innovation from Antiquity to Modernity
Building Across - Beams and Bending
Educational · 4 Mar 2011 · 31 min The Great Courses Signature Collection
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S1, E6: Why beams are central to the aspiration of building across long distances; combining tension and compression; surveying beams in the Lion Gate at Mycenae and Norway's Raftsundet Bridge; investigating scientific developments.
Educational · 4 Mar 2011 · 31 min