Shaw's Civil architecture; being a complete theoretical and practical system of building, containing the fundamental principles of the art (1852)
Shaw, Edward · Boston, J. P. Jewett · leaf 327
bridge of five hundred orone thousand feet span. But the great demand forshipping has rendered their formation familiar, andtheir increased bulk has gradually grown upon oursenses. But had a man, in the infancy of navalarchitecture, hinted at a vessel of two thousand tons,I am inclined to think his… … ?T? fT? ffTi rCO Sr3 f^^ rzT, ,>1 7T- I. Ij. 01 ff_ ■J ■/ 0 ■ 7 3. F,y.2. -^ ■■ISJfl/tlf/im Sf BRIDGES. 133 WATERLOO BRIDGE. Plate 95. This bridge, thrown over the River Thames, atLondon, was projected by Mr. George Dodd, aboutthe year 1805. Considerable time, however, elapsedbefore the…
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