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Author: Michael Meighan Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445640104 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 96
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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Forth Bridges have changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Michael Meighan Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445640104 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 96
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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Forth Bridges have changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Sheila McKay Publisher: ISBN: 9781780276960 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The Forth Bridge was the greatest engineering feat the Victorian world had ever seen and remains, to this day, one of the great achievements of mankind. The Forth Bridge: A Picture History, tells the dramatic story of its construction using rare archive photographs.
Author: Joseph Rogers Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 144568442X Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 204
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From the world-renowned to the minor and the modest take a look at this lavishly illustrated look at some of Britain's best loved and iconic bridges.
Author: Iain Banks Publisher: Abacus ISBN: 9780349139210 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night there are his dreams. Dreams in which desperate men drive sealed carriages across barren mountains to a bizarre rendezvous; an illiterate barbarian storms an enchanted tower under a stream of verbal abuse; and broken men walk forever over bridges without end, taunted by visions of a doomed sexuality. Lying in bed unconscious after an accident wouldn't be much fun, you'd think. Oh yes? It depends who and what you've left behind. Which is the stranger reality, day or night? Frequently hilarious and consistently disturbing, THE BRIDGE is a novel of outrageous contrasts, constructed chaos and elegant absurdities.
Author: T. Christopher Smout Publisher: Birlinn Limited ISBN: 9781780270647 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 306
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The Firth of Forth combines a rich wildlife with a history of long and intense human activity around its shores and in its waters. At one time, herring, cod and haddock, with many other edible fish, were vastly more numerous, but seals and seabirds much rarer than they are now.
Author: Ivo Andríc Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226020457 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 324
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"A great stone bridge built three centuries ago in the heart of the Balkans ... stands witness to the countless lives played out upon it" and to the sufferings of the people of Bosnia.--Cover.
Author: David McCullough Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743217373 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 654
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First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. Winning acclaim for its comprehensive look at the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, this book helped cement David McCullough's reputation as America's preeminent social historian. Now, The Great Bridge is reissued as a Simon & Schuster Classic Edition with a new introduction by the author. This monumental book brings back for American readers the heroic vision of the America we once had. It is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our nation's history during the Age of Optimism -- a period when Americans were convinced in their hearts that all great things were possible. In the years around 1870, when the project was first undertaken, the concept of building a great bridge to span the East River between the great cities of Manhattan and Brooklyn required a vision and determination comparable to that which went into the building of the pyramids. Throughout the fourteen years of its construction, the odds against the successful completion of the bridge seemed staggering. Bodies were crushed and broken, lives lost, political empires fell, and surges of public emotion constantly threatened the project. But this is not merely the saga of an engineering miracle: it is a sweeping narrative of the social climate of the time and of the heroes and rascals who had a hand in either constructing or obstructing the great enterprise. Amid the flood of praise for the book when it was originally published, Newsday said succinctly "This is the definitive book on the event. Do not wait for a better try: there won't be any."
Author: Roland Paxton Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 184
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The fascinating story of the Forth Bridge is related here. The bridge is a functional monument, now transporting 200 trains a day and three million passengers a year, a symbol of Scotland and of human ingenuity, a pinnacle of Victorian enterprise and engineering, and a memorial to the men who died in its creation. As part of their contribution to the centenary of the Forth Bridge, a group of eminent engineers reassessed the bridge from the standpoint of current engineering knowledge. This lavishly illustrated book is the result.
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