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Author: Sheila McKay
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Published: 2020-11-03
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ISBN-13: 9781780276960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Forth Bridge was the greatest engineering feat the Victorian world had ever seen and remains, to this day, one of the great achievements of mankind. The Forth Bridge: A Picture History, tells the dramatic story of its construction using rare archive photographs.
Author: Roland Paxton
Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fascinating story of the Forth Bridge is related here. The bridge is a functional monument, now transporting 200 trains a day and three million passengers a year, a symbol of Scotland and of human ingenuity, a pinnacle of Victorian enterprise and engineering, and a memorial to the men who died in its creation. As part of their contribution to the centenary of the Forth Bridge, a group of eminent engineers reassessed the bridge from the standpoint of current engineering knowledge. This lavishly illustrated book is the result.
Author: Anthony Murray
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781851581238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anthony Murray
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Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780906391334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elspeth Wills
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Published: 2022-07-31
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781839830044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Forth Bridge has long been recognised as one of the finest examples of Victorian engineering on the planet and has achieved an iconic status as one of the great feats of western civilisation since its official opening in 1890. Lavishly illustrated throughout with stunning archive images, Elspeth Wills uncovers the human story behind 'the engineering marvel': the story of the Briggers. It is a story that has never been told before - of ordinary men working on an extraordinary structure in an often hostile and dangerous environment. Recognised throughout the world as an enduring icon of Scotland, the Forth Bridge is more than just a testament to the genius of Victorian engineering, it is a monument to all those who worked to realise its vision and to the scores of lives that were lost in the process. In this groundbreaking new work, Elspeth Wills gives a voice to the forgotten heroes who helped to make the ambition of the Bridge a reality.
Author: Iain Banks
Publisher: Little Brown GBR
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780316858540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night there are his dreams. Dreams in which desperate men drive sealed carriages across barren mountains to a bizarre rendezvous; an illiterate barbarian storms an enchanted tower under a stream of verbal abuse; and broken men walk forever over bridges without end, taunted by visions of a doomed sexuality. Lying in bed unconscious after an accident wouldn't be much fun, you'd think. Oh yes? It depends who and what you've left behind. Which is the stranger reality, day or night? Frequently hilarious and consistently disturbing, THE BRIDGE is a novel of outrageous contrasts, constructed chaos and elegant absurdities.
Author: Philip Phillips
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Photographs by Phillips printed as Ink Photos by Sprague & Company, London. Ink Photos could be printed either by lithography, as here, or by relief. The process was a secret one that used a random dot screen much like a heavy collotype pattern. The resulting pictures have a crude but fascinating quality. Sprague claimed to have started this form of printing in 1879, though most encountered are from the 1890s."--David Hanson documentation
Author: W. Westhofen
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 71
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles McKean
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting a dramatic and scandalous story of the building of the Tay and Forth Bridges and the 19th century railway wars, this work explores the complicated reality underlying the Victorian pursuit of progress.
Author: Michael Meighan
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-08-15
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1445640104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Forth Bridges have changed and developed over the last century.
