Author: Michael Meighan
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445640104
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Forth Bridges have changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Michael Meighan
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445640104
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Forth Bridges have changed and developed over the last century.
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Category : Forth Bridge (South Queensferry, Scotland : Railroad bridge)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Author: Sheila Mackay
Publisher: Birlinn Publishers
ISBN: 9781841589350
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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It may perhaps interest you if I mention a few figures in connexion with the construction of the bridge. Its extreme length, including the approach viaduct, is 2,765 yards, one and one-fifth of a mile, and the actual length of the cantilever portion of the bridge is one mile and 20 yards - about eight millions of rivets have been used in the bridge and 42 miles of bent plates used in the tubes, about the distance between Edinburgh and Glasgow. The works were commenced in April 1883, and its highly to the credit of everyone engaged in the operation that a structure so stupendous and so exceptional in its character should have been completed within seven years' - HRH The Prince of Wales, 4 March 1890 The Forth Bridge was the greatest engineering feat the Victorian world had ever seen and remains, to this day, one of the great achievements of mankind. The Forth Bridge: A Picture History, tells the dramatic story of its construction using rare archive photographs.
Author: Philip Phillips
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Category : Cantilever bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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Author: Henry A. Parker
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Author: Iain Boyd Whyte
Publisher: Edition Axel Menges
ISBN: 3930698188
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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When the Forth Bridge opened on 4 March 1890, it was the longest railway bridge in the world and the first large structure made of steel. Crossing the wide Firth of Forth west of Edinburgh in Scotland, it represents one of the greatest engineering triumphs of Victorian Britain, man's victory over the intractable topography of land and water. Not surprisingly, such a vigorous rebuff of the natural order was condemned at the time by those late Victorians who resisted the march of technology, and William Morris described the Bridge as the "supremest specimen of all ugliness". In response, Benjamin Baker insisted that its beauty lay in its functional elegance. Contrasting the bridge with the only comparable structure of the period, the Eiffel Tower, he concluded: "The Eiffel Tower is a foolish piece of work, ugly, ill-proportioned and of no real use to anyone." But the beauty and fascination of the Forth Bridge lies not simply in its functional performance, but in its scale and power. Over a mile long and higher than the dome of St. Peter's in Rome, it rivals the natural phenomena that the philosophers of the 18th century identified as sources of sublime beauty. Immanuel Kant pointed to hurricanes, boundless oceans and high waterfalls as objects of sublime contemplation, "because they raise the forces of the soul above the heights of the vulgar commonplace, and discover within us a power of resistance of quite another kind, which gives us courage to be able to measure ourselves against the seeming omnipotence of nature". In the 19th century the awe-inspiring feats of nature were rivalled by the inventions of the engineers, and the thrill of the waterfall or the lightning flash was eclipsed by the sight of the roaring locomotive dashing across the majestic span of the Forth Bridge.
Author: Philip Phillips
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Category : Cantilever bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
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Author: Sheila McKay
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ISBN: 9781780276960
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Languages : en
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The Forth Bridge was the greatest engineering feat the Victorian world had ever seen and remains, to this day, one of the great achievements of mankind. The Forth Bridge: A Picture History, tells the dramatic story of its construction using rare archive photographs.
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
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