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Author | : Iain Boyd Whyte |
Publisher | : Edition Axel Menges |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 3930698188 |
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.
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Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : Rolt Hammond |
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Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Bridges |
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Author | : John Fowler |
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Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1997 |
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ISBN | : 9783930698189 |
Author | : Roland Paxton |
Publisher | : Thomas Telford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
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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.
Author | : Iain Banks |
Publisher | : Little Brown GBR |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Amnesia |
ISBN | : 9780316858540 |
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.
Author | : Sir Benjamin Baker |
Publisher | : [London : s.n.], 1884 (London : Bedford Press) |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Bridges |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Forth Bridge (South Queensferry, Scotland : Railroad bridge) |
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Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 1889 |
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Author | : Sukhen Chatterjee |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 140514758X |
Bridges are great symbols of mankind’s conquest of space. They are a monument to his vision and determination, but these alone are not enough. An appreciation of the mathematical theories underlying bridge design is essential to resist the physical forces of nature and gravity. The object of this book is to explain firstly the nature of the problems associated with the building of bridges with steel as the basic material, and then the theories that are available to tackle them. The book covers: a technological history of the different types of iron and steel bridges the basic properties of steel loads on bridges from either natural or traffic-induced forces the process and aims of design based on limit state and statistical probability concepts buckling behaviour of various components and large-deflection behaviour of components with initial imperfections detailed guidance on the design of plate and box girder bridges together with some design examples The Second Edition includes a completely new chapter on the history and design of cable-stayed bridges, the various types of cable used for them and their method of construction, and it addresses many of the changes introduced in the latest version of the British Standard Design Code for steel bridges, BS 5400: Part 3:2000.