Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 171
125 It is evident from these examples that the Romans were masters of the science of engineering so far as concerns the construction of stone bridges and of aqueducts, and history shows that their skill extended to other branches as well. After the fall of the Western Empire there was little bridge… … Fig. 8. — Bridge of St. Benezet, across the Rhone at Avignon. In France a religious association known as " Brothers of the Bridge," was founded by Benedictine mouks, and flourished especially during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. By this order the building of bridges was assumed as an act of…
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