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... soon . A very interesting pair of Chinese chron- icles give ground for speculation . The first is the record of a journey to India by the Buddhist monk Fa Hsien in A.D. 399 in search of sacred writings . Fa Hsien , who eventually ...
... soon . A very interesting pair of Chinese chron- icles give ground for speculation . The first is the record of a journey to India by the Buddhist monk Fa Hsien in A.D. 399 in search of sacred writings . Fa Hsien , who eventually ...
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... soon off digging canals , and on one of them he built his first bridge - a matter- of - fact , according - to - the - book stone aqueduct of five 75 - foot semicir- cular arches , to carry the canal over a river . He was also engaged in ...
... soon off digging canals , and on one of them he built his first bridge - a matter- of - fact , according - to - the - book stone aqueduct of five 75 - foot semicir- cular arches , to carry the canal over a river . He was also engaged in ...
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... soon destroy it . The idea was of course not new , as witness the Kapellbrücke and Spreuerbrücke . For that matter , it had long been a common practice in America to build housings over the trusses of king - posts and queen- posts ...
... soon destroy it . The idea was of course not new , as witness the Kapellbrücke and Spreuerbrücke . For that matter , it had long been a common practice in America to build housings over the trusses of king - posts and queen- posts ...
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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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