Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 325
he total cost of the structure was ^601,865. A stupendous tubular bridge has also been built over the St. Lawrenceat Montreal, and the special difficulties which attended its constructionrender it perhaps unsurpassed as a specimen of engineering skill. Themagnitude of the undertaking may be judged… … Fig. 145.—Albert Bridge, Saltash. tons ; area of the surface of the ironwork, 32 acres ; number of piers, 24,with 25 spans between the piers, each from 242 ft. to 247 ft. wide. Another singular modification of the girder principle occurs in the bridgebuilt by Brunei across a tidal river at Saltash,…
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