Tom Paine’s Iron Bridge

Contents

AUTHOR’S NOTE: ON ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS

2: The Hazards of Competition

3: Years of Peril

4: The Trials of the Republic of Pennsylvania

5: The Schuylkill and Its Crossings

6: The Schuylkill Permanent Bridge Company

7: The Magical Iron Arch

8: American Architect

9: An Architect and His Patrons

10: The Great Rupture

11: The Specter of Paine

12: Citizen Paine

13: No Nation of Iron Bridges

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS