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... building a model of a stone arch and testing its effect on various sizes of abutments . De Volgie succeeded in building a bridge over the Loire near Saumur with an eighty - foot arch span and an arch rise of only eight feet . But ...
... building a model of a stone arch and testing its effect on various sizes of abutments . De Volgie succeeded in building a bridge over the Loire near Saumur with an eighty - foot arch span and an arch rise of only eight feet . But ...
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... building . He did not , any more than Colonel Long or Theodore Burr or Tim- othy Palmer , introduce science . They were carpenters ; Howe was a carpenter - mechanic . Among them all , with their hewed timber and trunnels , their iron ...
... building . He did not , any more than Colonel Long or Theodore Burr or Tim- othy Palmer , introduce science . They were carpenters ; Howe was a carpenter - mechanic . Among them all , with their hewed timber and trunnels , their iron ...
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... building a bridge before . But then , James Eads had never thought of building an ironclad gunboat before 1861. To his stupendous new undertaking he brought no formal technical training , but he brought experience no engineering school ...
... building a bridge before . But then , James Eads had never thought of building an ironclad gunboat before 1861. To his stupendous new undertaking he brought no formal technical training , but he brought experience no engineering school ...
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How Bridges Were Invented | 1 |
The Mighty Roman Arch | 7 |
The Engineer Vanishes from Europe but Appears in Asia | 19 |
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