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| Author | : Peter Lewis |
| Publisher | : Revealing History (Paperback) |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
Over 125 years ago, barely a year and a half after the Tay Railway Bridge was built, William McGonnagal composed his poem about the Tay Bridge Disaster, the poem about Britain’s worst-ever civil engineering disaster. Over 80 people lost their lives in the fall of the Tay Bridge, but how did it happen? The accident reports say that high wind and poor construction were to blame, but Peter Lewis, an Open University engineering professor, tells the real story of how the bridge so spectacularly collapsed in December 1879.
| Author | : Peter R. Lewis |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2012-05-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0752487639 |
Over 125 years ago, barely a year and a half after the Tay Railway Bridge was built, William McGonnagal composed his poem about the Tay Bridge Disaster, the poem about Britain's worst-ever civil engineering disaster. Over 80 people lost their lives in the fall of the Tay Bridge, but how did it happen? The accident reports say that high wind and poor construction were to blame, but Peter Lewis, an Open University engineering professor, tells the real story of how the bridge so spectacularly collapsed in December 1879.
| Author | : William McGonagall |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1954 |
| Genre | : Poets, Scottish |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Kathryn Petras |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 1997-03-25 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 0679776222 |
Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence. The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism. Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Very Bad Poetry is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).
| Author | : David I Harvie |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 141 |
| Release | : 2006-08-24 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0752495054 |
Presenting the story of Gustave Eiffel, this book examines the conception, and controversial construction of the tower that bears his name, one of the most famous tall buildings in the world. Just at the point of his greatest success, he signed contracts for the project which was to bring scandal on his name - the Panama Canal.
| Author | : John Thomas |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : Railroad accidents |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Charlotte Mary Yonge |
| Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1927 |
| Genre | : Europe |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : William McGonagall |
| Publisher | : Orchises Press |
| Total Pages | : 68 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780914061847 |
| Author | : Robin Lumley |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 387 |
| Release | : 2013-11-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0752499602 |
On Sunday, 28 December 1879, the 5.27 mail and passenger train from Burntisland to Dundee went out across the world's longest bridge on a black, fierce night, only to be dashed to pieces in the River Tay as the bridge collapsed during one of the worst storms in Scottish history. The Tay Bridge Disaster remains to this day the worst catastrophic failure of a civil engineering structure in Britain – the land equivalent of the Titanic sinking. In this book, author Robin Lumley brings a poignant human perspective to the fateful night in 1879 that shook Britain and the world of engineering to their core and sent a nation into mourning for the seventy-five souls lost to the dark, freezing waters of the River Tay. Packed full of personal tales and offering technical appendices for those who wish to further their specialised knowledge, Tay Bridge Disaster: The People's Story is a must-read for anyone interested in this tragic event in Scottish and British history.
| Author | : John Goodridge |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2020-08-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1000748375 |
Over 100 poets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were hugely popular and important in their day but few are available today. This is a collection of some of those poems from the 19th century.
