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... forsee some difficulties that appear to me formidable — In the first Place I see the men giddy and terryfied in laying stones with such an immense depth underneath them with only a space of 6 feet wide and 10 feet long to stand upon ...
... forsee some difficulties that appear to me formidable — In the first Place I see the men giddy and terryfied in laying stones with such an immense depth underneath them with only a space of 6 feet wide and 10 feet long to stand upon ...
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piers were built of ashlar masonry , solid up to an elevation of 70 feet , and above that , hollow . To them Telford gave much thought . In his Life he says of his ultimate design- The outer walls being only two feet in thickness with ...
piers were built of ashlar masonry , solid up to an elevation of 70 feet , and above that , hollow . To them Telford gave much thought . In his Life he says of his ultimate design- The outer walls being only two feet in thickness with ...
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He proposed a bridge of three arches of 90 feet span each , the one over the bed of the river being 106 feet high ; and the contract was let on those lines . But when excavations for foundations were commenced in October 1829 , it was ...
He proposed a bridge of three arches of 90 feet span each , the one over the bed of the river being 106 feet high ; and the contract was let on those lines . But when excavations for foundations were commenced in October 1829 , it was ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Edinburgh at the beginning of the Twentieth Century I | 8 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
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| Title | The Story of Telford: The Rise of Civil Engineering |
| Author | Sir Alexander Gibb |
| Publisher | A. Maclehose & Company, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Jan 2006 |
| Length | 357 pages |
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