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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 690

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, but space forbids entering into details of these works.They are in principle similar to those required for highways, but many ofthese great works would never have been undertaken for such traffic as iscarried by a highway. The only railway suspension bridge ever built wasthe Niagara bridge,… … EKTRANCE TO ST. GOTHARD TUNNEL, SWITZERLAND. was opened in 1859, was replaced in 1897-98 by a double-track railway androadway truss bridge on the same piers. The steel arch bridge, 1700 feetlong, across the Mississippi, at St. Louis, cost $5,300,000. The tubular bridge,6592 feet long, over the St.…

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