Great facts : a popular history and description of the most remarkable inventions during the present century (1860)
Bakewell, Frederick C. (Frederick Collier), 1800-1869 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 310
locomotion has not onlygiven rise to the construction of new kinds of bridges,but it has directed mechanical science to devise bettermeans of applying the strength of materials. On theSouth Devon and Cornwall Railways are to be seenwooden viaducts, carrying the line over valleys atgreat heights,…
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