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For this reason , and because of the necessity of allowing for very heavy floods , and also to meet some of the difficulties of foundations , Telford decided that the new bridge should be a single - arch iron bridge .
For this reason , and because of the necessity of allowing for very heavy floods , and also to meet some of the difficulties of foundations , Telford decided that the new bridge should be a single - arch iron bridge .
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And Tom Paine , the famous author of The Rights of Man , had also designed an iron bridge intended to be shipped to America for use on the Schuylkill River . The members of Paine's bridge were constructed at Rotherham in Yorkshire ...
And Tom Paine , the famous author of The Rights of Man , had also designed an iron bridge intended to be shipped to America for use on the Schuylkill River . The members of Paine's bridge were constructed at Rotherham in Yorkshire ...
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Telford's iron trough system was accordingly adopted . But the problems did not end there . In July 1795 , Jessop was writing to Telford from London : ' In looking forward to the time when we shall be laying the Iron Trough on the Piers ...
Telford's iron trough system was accordingly adopted . But the problems did not end there . In July 1795 , Jessop was writing to Telford from London : ' In looking forward to the time when we shall be laying the Iron Trough on the Piers ...
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