Bridges and MenGrosset & Dunlap, 1966 - 343 páginas |
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... eye To be almost towering to the sky . The greatest wonder of the day , And a great beautification to the River Tay . Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay ! I hope that God will protect all passengers By night and by day , And ...
... eye To be almost towering to the sky . The greatest wonder of the day , And a great beautification to the River Tay . Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay ! I hope that God will protect all passengers By night and by day , And ...
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... eyes re- vealed a paralyzing sight : the whole center section of the great bridge -the thirteen High Girders - was gone . Only the stumps of the piers remained . The two men turned and scrambled madly up the bank . Running through the ...
... eyes re- vealed a paralyzing sight : the whole center section of the great bridge -the thirteen High Girders - was gone . Only the stumps of the piers remained . The two men turned and scrambled madly up the bank . Running through the ...
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... eye . They had been of comparatively no account during their successes ; and , though they might feel dispirited ... eyes of this species were mostly directed over the parapet upon the running water be- low . A man seen there looking ...
... eye . They had been of comparatively no account during their successes ; and , though they might feel dispirited ... eyes of this species were mostly directed over the parapet upon the running water be- low . A man seen there looking ...
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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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Abutment American Ammann anchorage army bedrock bridge engineering bridge-building bridge's British Brooklyn Bridge building built cables caisson canal cantilever Captain carried century Civil Engineers Colonel completed construction covered bridge cross deck DeLisio Eads's East famous feet ferry Figure fire Firth Firth of Tay foundations four French Galloping Gertie George Henry High Girders hundred inches Island James Eads John Rennie John Roebling later loading locomotive London Bridge long-span Louis Bridge main span masonry Menai Menai Strait miles Mississippi modern named Niagara Othmar H Paris Perronet piers piles Pont Pont-Neuf pontoons problem rail railroad bridge Remagen Rennie Rialto river road roadway Robert Stephenson Roebling's semicircular shore side steel Steinman stone arch stood Strait stream structure suspension bridge suspension span Telford Thomas Bouch timber tion took tower traffic train truss tube tunnel Washington Roebling Wheeling wind wire York