Bridges, structural steel work, and mechanical engineering productions (1909)
Sir William Arrol and Company, Ltd · Sir William Arrol and Company, Ltd · leaf 84
CT : > EARLY METAL BRIDGKs. CI several others, including a cast-iron bridge over the RiverWear, at Sunderland, built in 1796, with a single archof 236-ft. span. The Southwark Bridge, with a centralspan of 240 ft., was built in 1819. These metal bridgesproved cheaper than masonry or wooden… … First Iron Bridge ever Erected. By the perfection of the principle of the suspensionbridge it was found convenient to utilise the tensile, aswell as the compressive, properties of metal. AMrileone or two small examples date from the eighteenthcentury, the first notable erection was the Union…
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