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The Select Committee's Third Report had mentioned that Telford and Douglas had submitted four alternative bridges ; and it was on one of them that the Committee seems to have based its recommendation , a bridge of five iron arches .
The Select Committee's Third Report had mentioned that Telford and Douglas had submitted four alternative bridges ; and it was on one of them that the Committee seems to have based its recommendation , a bridge of five iron arches .
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Rennie had five years earlier worked out a similar suggestion for a single arch of 450 feet length and 150 feet above high water ; but Rennie had preferred a three arch iron bridge at another site . The estimated costs of Rennie's ...
Rennie had five years earlier worked out a similar suggestion for a single arch of 450 feet length and 150 feet above high water ; but Rennie had preferred a three arch iron bridge at another site . The estimated costs of Rennie's ...
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The outer arch stones , or headers , at both the entrance and exit are sloped so as to give the effect of a separate flatter arch springing from a point some feet higher than the main one . The under side of the bridge instead of being ...
The outer arch stones , or headers , at both the entrance and exit are sloped so as to give the effect of a separate flatter arch springing from a point some feet higher than the main one . The under side of the bridge instead of being ...
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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 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 22 Aug 2008 |
| Length | 357 pages |
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