The Forth Bridge. Reprinted from "Engineering", February 28, 1890

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Автор: Engineering

Название: The Forth Bridge. Reprinted from "Engineering", February 28, 1890

Издательство: Engineering

Год: 1890

Формат: pdf

Язык: английский

Размер: 13,6 Мб

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First edition in this format. Folio. 14" x 10.50" x 0.50". [4pp.]/pp.71/[1p.], with 19 full-page plates and numerous illustrations within the text, as call for. Dark blue cloth over thin card covers, with bright gilt titles to the front cover.

Covers with numerous small creases, corners rubbed and bumped. Spine very worn and a little dis-coloured, top & tail very rubbed. Original yellow endpapers. Inner hinges very weak, but covers holding. Light foxing to title and some of the other leaves, but overall clear English text (in triple columns) and clean illustrations throughout. A good copy of this scarce edition. *** "The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, to the east of the Forth Road Bridge, and 14 kilometres (9 miles) west of central Edinburgh. It was opened on 4 March 1890, and spans a total length of 2,528.7 metres (8,296 ft). It is often called the Forth Rail Bridge or Forth Railway Bridge to distinguish it from the Forth Road Bridge, although it has been called the "Forth Bridge" since its construction, and was for over seventy years the sole claimant to this name. The bridge was begun in 1883, took 7 years to complete, cost the lives of 98 men and nearly 58,000 tonnes (130,000,000 lb) of metal and used 10 times as much metal as the Eiffel Tower. It was deliberately chosen to look strong, due to the collapse 4 years earlier of the first Tay Bridge."

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