The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 252
nd the Conway, were furnished by F. Thompson,Esq., of London. When the whole structure is completed, it willconsist of two immense wrought-iron tunnels or tubes, each con-siderably upwards of a quarter of a mile in length, placed side byside, through which the up and down trains respectively will… … bridge, but resist incumbent pressure on exactly the same princi-ples as the short plank does by which the village brook is crossed.But their form, and the method of employing the material ofwhich they are composed, is so novel and beautiful, and so verydifferent to those of a simple beam or…
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