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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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It reaches from the Town of Shrewsbury to the Coallierries in the neighbourhood of the Wrekin , at a place called Ketley , where there are likewise great Iron Works . There has of course been a good deal of regulation necessary upon the ...
It reaches from the Town of Shrewsbury to the Coallierries in the neighbourhood of the Wrekin , at a place called Ketley , where there are likewise great Iron Works . There has of course been a good deal of regulation necessary upon the ...
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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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Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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| Title | The Story of Telford: The Rise of Civil Engineering |
| Author | Sir Alexander Gibb |
| Publisher | A. Maclehose & Company, 1935 |
| Length | 357 pages |
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