The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. (1839)
London : J.W. Parker · leaf 134
he bridge was built apparently in one span fromshore to shore, but additionalsupport was afforded by beamsspringing from the stone pier. The length of the bridgewas 364 feet, and its breadth eighteen feet. This bridge wasdestroyed by the French in 1799. John, the brother of UlricGrubenmann, has… … Swiss Bridge. Wiebecking, who has been called the most skilful car-penter of modern times, has erected timber bridges of ex-traordinary dimensions. One of these structures is the seg-ment of a circle, the chord line of which measures 639 feet,its versed sine only twenty-six feet six inches, being…
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