Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 327
e roadway is 102 ft. above the high-water level,and it has a breadth of 28 ft, divided into two carriage-ways separated bya foot-track. The chains are formed of flat wrought iron bars, 9 ft. long,3I in. broad, and i in. thick. In the main chains, of which there are six-teen, no fewer than eighty… … Fig. 146.—Clifton Suspension Bridge, near Bristol. transverse stays formed of cast iron tubes, through which pass wroughtiron bolts, and there are also diagonal ties joining the ends of the trans-verse stays. The time occupied in the construction was t\ years, and thecost was ^120,000. This bridge…
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