Bridging the Years: A Short History of British Civil EngineeringE. Arnold, 1956 - 212 páginas |
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... arch of 100 - feet span which was quite naturally viewed as one of the wonders of the age . Seventeen years later , Telford , then the surveyor for the county , built the second iron bridge , on much the same design , at Buildwas in ...
... arch of 100 - feet span which was quite naturally viewed as one of the wonders of the age . Seventeen years later , Telford , then the surveyor for the county , built the second iron bridge , on much the same design , at Buildwas in ...
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... arch ribs , but through some delay these could not be supplied in time for the opening of the railway . Instead , the arch ribs were made of laminations of Memel timber bolted together . Evidently not too certain of the stability of the ...
... arch ribs , but through some delay these could not be supplied in time for the opening of the railway . Instead , the arch ribs were made of laminations of Memel timber bolted together . Evidently not too certain of the stability of the ...
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... arch and suspension members - the top chord , a large oval cylinder , being the arch in compression and the bottom chord , two suspension chains in tension holding in the arch abutments . Between the chords a system of ties and struts ...
... arch and suspension members - the top chord , a large oval cylinder , being the arch in compression and the bottom chord , two suspension chains in tension holding in the arch abutments . Between the chords a system of ties and struts ...
Contenido
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
Contracting in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Cen | 89 |
Some Notable British Civil Engineering Works I 1825 | 106 |
Otras 35 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
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