Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 168
value to theworld diminished by this circumstance, for the Brunels showed mankindthe way to accomplish designs which, perhaps, less gifted engineers woukxnever have had the boldness to propose. The Box Tunnel led the way toother longer and longer tunnels, culminating in that of Mont Cenis ; butfor… … Fig. 6i.—Section of Great Eastern Amidships. Great Eastern had existed,Tve should not now have had an Atlantic Tele-graph. Possibly this huge ship is but the precursor of other still larger,and it is undoubtedly true that since its construction the ideas of navalarchitects have been greatly…
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