"Amasa Stone and The Ashtabula Bridge Disaster: A Gilded Age Parable of Wealth and Tragedy" was written by Darius L. Salter, Ph.D. and published in 2022 the same year as the documentary film. 
 
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The Ashtabula Bridge disaster was a horrific engineering failure that shocked late 19th century America. But was Amasa Stone's innovative all-iron bridge "an experiment which ought never have been tried," as the foreman of the Coroner's Jury proclaimed? Or was it "an honest effort to improve the bridge practice of the county," as an engineering investigator reported? In this meticulously researched book, Dr. Darius Salter delves deeply into these questions - and many other issues surrounding the disaster. Through this fascinating story, we can gain importaint insights about the role of human judgement in engineering and the inherent risk in technological innovation. - Stephen J. Ressler, P.E.., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, U.S. Military Academy at West Point. 
 
Dr. Salter has examined thoroughly that which Amasa Stone famously "got right" and also infamously "got wrong". His tragic error regaurding the latter earned this great innovator a very dark place in history this will alsways cast a grim shadow beyond any and all of his many brilliant, positive contributions." - Nathan S. Clark, Jr., Conrail Executive & Logistics Professional focusing on railroad freight.