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Download or read book The Forth Bridge written by Sheila McKay and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Briggers written by Elspeth Wills and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forth Bridge has long been recognised as one of the finest examples of Victorian engineering on the planet and has achieved an iconic status as one of the great feats of western civilisation since its official opening in 1890. Lavishly illustrated throughout with stunning archive images, Elspeth Wills uncovers the human story behind 'the engineering marvel': the story of the Briggers. It is a story that has never been told before - of ordinary men working on an extraordinary structure in an often hostile and dangerous environment. Recognised throughout the world as an enduring icon of Scotland, the Forth Bridge is more than just a testament to the genius of Victorian engineering, it is a monument to all those who worked to realise its vision and to the scores of lives that were lost in the process. In this groundbreaking new work, Elspeth Wills gives a voice to the forgotten heroes who helped to make the ambition of the Bridge a reality.
Book Synopsis John Fowler, Benjamin Baker, Forth Bridge by : Iain Boyd Whyte
Download or read book John Fowler, Benjamin Baker, Forth Bridge written by Iain Boyd Whyte and published by Edition Axel Menges. This book was released on 1997 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 east of Edinburgh, 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 his masterpiece with the only comparable structure of the period, the Eiffel Tower, he concluded: »The Eiffel Tower is a foolish piece of work, ugly, illproportioned and of no real use to anyone.
Book Synopsis 100 Years of the Forth Bridge by : Roland Paxton
Download or read book 100 Years of the Forth Bridge written by Roland Paxton and published by Thomas Telford Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the Forth Bridge is related here. The bridge is a functional monument, now transporting 200 trains a day and three million passengers a year, a symbol of Scotland and of human ingenuity, a pinnacle of Victorian enterprise and engineering, and a memorial to the men who died in its creation. As part of their contribution to the centenary of the Forth Bridge, a group of eminent engineers reassessed the bridge from the standpoint of current engineering knowledge. This lavishly illustrated book is the result.
Book Synopsis The Forth Railway Bridge by : Anthony Murray
Download or read book The Forth Railway Bridge written by Anthony Murray and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Forth Railway Bridge by : Anthony Murray
Download or read book The Forth Railway Bridge written by Anthony Murray and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Forth Railway Bridge by : Philip Phillips
Download or read book The Forth Railway Bridge written by Philip Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Photographs by Phillips printed as Ink Photos by Sprague & Company, London. Ink Photos could be printed either by lithography, as here, or by relief. The process was a secret one that used a random dot screen much like a heavy collotype pattern. The resulting pictures have a crude but fascinating quality. Sprague claimed to have started this form of printing in 1879, though most encountered are from the 1890s."--David Hanson documentation
Download or read book The Bridge written by Iain Banks and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2001 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night there are his dreams. Dreams in which desperate men drive sealed carriages across barren mountains to a bizarre rendezvous; an illiterate barbarian storms an enchanted tower under a stream of verbal abuse; and broken men walk forever over bridges without end, taunted by visions of a doomed sexuality. Lying in bed unconscious after an accident wouldn't be much fun, you'd think. Oh yes? It depends who and what you've left behind. Which is the stranger reality, day or night? Frequently hilarious and consistently disturbing, THE BRIDGE is a novel of outrageous contrasts, constructed chaos and elegant absurdities.
Download or read book Forth Bridge written by W. Westhofen and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Battle for the North by : Charles McKean
Download or read book Battle for the North written by Charles McKean and published by Granta Books (Uk). This book was released on 2006 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a dramatic and scandalous story of the building of the Tay and Forth Bridges and the 19th century railway wars, this work explores the complicated reality underlying the Victorian pursuit of progress.
Book Synopsis The Forth Bridges Through Time by : Michael Meighan
Download or read book The Forth Bridges Through Time written by Michael Meighan and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Forth Bridges have changed and developed over the last century.
Book Synopsis Engineering Wonders of the World by : Archibald Williams
Download or read book Engineering Wonders of the World written by Archibald Williams and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Forth Bridge written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Forth Bridge written by Colin Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forth Bridges is the supreme ambassador of railway bridges. It has become heritage in its own working lifetime. Its brute strength and beauty have won the world's admiration. Now, in its second century, it remains its own monument to a daring vision and the anonymous thousands who laboured to make it what it has become.
Download or read book The Forth Bridge written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Forth Bridge written by Sheila Mackay and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Forth Bridge by : Sir Benjamin Baker
Download or read book The Forth Bridge written by Sir Benjamin Baker and published by [London : s.n.], 1884 (London : Bedford Press). This book was released on 1884 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
