<p>Intro/Outro: “Lattice,” by Tipper</p><p>--</p><p>Discussed:</p><ul><li><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552110/american-bridge/">American Bridge: Reinventing Building, Making History</a></li><li>Gregory Dreicer</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_truss_bridge">Lattice bridge</a> patented 1820 by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithiel_Town">Ithiel Town</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Jackson_Davis">A.J. Davis</a></li><li>Nationalism and national character (e.g. “American,” “British”)</li><li>Wooden bridges and iron bridges</li><li>Evolutionary analogies (“technology evolves”)</li><li>Evolutionary hierarchies</li><li>Industrialization myths</li><li>Industrialization of construction</li><li>Invention of the beam</li><li>Uniform parts</li><li>Knowledge types: “technology” and “science”</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howe_truss">Howe truss</a>, patented 1840</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_truss">Warren truss</a>, patented 1848</li><li>Invention as networked, transnational process</li><li><i>Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism,&nbsp;</i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Watson_(landscape_designer)">Julia Watson</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Bridge">Britannia Bridge</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stephenson">Robert Stephenson</a></li><li>Railway boom and Bezos’&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/jeff-bezos-ai-in-an-industrial-bubble-but-society-to-benefit.html?msockid=170162089b5f6d6304fc74ec9ac26c96">“good bubble</a>”</li><li>Railway construction labor</li><li><a href="https://www.press.purdue.edu/author/tom-f-peters/">Tom F. Peters’</a>, Manhattan grid, redundancy</li><li>Structural redundancy and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_(Baltimore)">Key Bridge, Baltimore</a></li><li>Iron as symbol</li><li><a href="https://www.coveredbridgesociety.org/">Covered bridges</a></li><li>Techno-utopianism</li><li>History of engineering and design</li><li>Myth of abundance of wood in the US</li></ul>