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Author : Eric Samuel De Maré
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UCAL:B4338292
Author : Joseph Rogers
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781445684420
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 : Ronald Yee
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781785007958
During the Industrial Revolution, Britain was at the forefront of bridge innovation. Pioneering designers such as George and Robert Stephenson, Thomas Telford and Isambard Kingdom Brunel created Britain's rich bridge heritage that features many world firsts and we can learn much from their ground-breaking designs. Written by an experienced bridge architect, this book includes an introduction to bridge aesthetics; it gives an outline of British bridge development and advice on parapet treatment and bridge lighting. This book offers a comprehensive overview of how the best of British bridges marry aesthetic considerations with engineering ingenuity.
Author : David McFetrich
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 1301 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781526752963
“An already impressive reference work has been made significantly more valuable . . . a well-illustrated alphabetized compendium of notable bridges.” —The Happy Pontist Bridges have a universal appeal as examples of man’s mastery of nature, from picturesque packhorse bridges to great spans stretching across broad estuaries, and the development of the technology that allows ever more audacious constructions is never-ending. Of the million or more bridges throughout Great Britain, David McFetrich has selected those that are significant in terms of their design, construction or location, or of their connections with people or events of history. His definitive book contains 1,600 separate entries for individual bridge sites or related groups of bridges covering more than 2,000 different structures, 165 general entries about different types of bridge and such topics as collapses and failures, and a summary of about 200 record-holding bridges in 50 different categories. The concise text is supported by more than 900 illustrations and diagrams. The result is a fascinating and readily accessible compendium. The Institute of Civil Engineers (ICA) is also on board. “A valuable resource to use . . . if you plan to visit some of these structures while on holiday or are merely planning a day out.” —East Yorkshire Family History Society “Well-written and researched and eminently readable . . . Because of the ubiquity of bridges throughout Great Britain, this volume should have wide appeal.” —NZ Crown Mines “Full of details covering the many bridges around the UK . . . I found it fascinating to see the variety of bridges around Britain, even the ones not railway related.” —Rail Advent
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Bridges
ISBN : OCLC:905450022
Author : Eric Samuel De Maré
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Bridges
ISBN : UOM:39015035266348
Author : Mark Chatterton
Publisher : Hadleigh Books
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781910811641
British Road Bridges - An Introduction looks at some of the various types of road bridges that are found in Great Britain. These include the following bridges:- Tower Bridge, the Humber Bridge and the Tamar Bridge. It also looks at the various types of bridge construction including cantilever, suspension and swing bridge
Author : David Featherstone Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780199272747
Medieval bridges are startling achievements of civil engineering, which prove the importance of road transport and the sophistication of the medieval economy. The Bridges of Medieval England rewrites their history, offering new insights into many aspects of the subject. It has profound implications for our understanding of pre-industrial economy and society, challenging accepted accounts of the development of medieval trade and communications and showing continuities from the Anglo-Saxon period to the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Author : Ken Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Bridges
ISBN : 0500343497
Tower Bridge, close to the Tower of London, is one of the best-known and most recognizable bridges in the world. Opened on 30 June 1894, this combined suspension and bascule bridge was designed by architect Sir Horace Jones and engineer Sir John Wolfe Barry.This new book, published to mark the 125th anniversary of its opening, will explore the history of the bridge, set it into the context of the River Thames and its crossings, and will, above all, focus on its design and construction. Highly illustrated with old and new images, from material held in the London Metropolitan Archives to specially commissioned photographs, Tower Bridge: History * Engineering * Design is a major new illustrated study of a remarkable piece of architecture and engineering.
Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Viking
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0670918679
Operation Market Garden, the plan in 1944 to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept- the Americans thought it unusually bold for Field Marshal Montgomery. It was the greatest demonstration of paratroop power ever seen - but the cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch who risked everything to help. German reprisals were cruel and lasted until the end of the war. The British fascination for heroic failure has clouded the story of Arnhem in myths, not least that victory was even possible. Antony Beevor, using many overlooked and new sources from Dutch, British, American, Polish and German archives, has reconstructed the terrible reality of this epic clash. Yet this book, written in Beevor's inimitable and gripping narrative style, is about much more than a single dramatic battle. It looks into the very heart of war.
Author : Brian Cookson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780578392
Some of the most beautiful views of London are those from the many bridges which span the River Thames. Millions of people cross over the Thames every day but most are too concerned with reaching their destination to notice the structures they use, let alone consider their history or the risks taken in building them. Triumphs of architecture and engineering, London's bridges have inspired artists as diverse as Dickens and Monet. From the elegant Richmond Bridge to the Gothic, quintessentially British Tower Bridge, they have formed the backdrop to battles, rebellions, pageantry and mysteries for two millennia. Crossing the River tells these stories, including the assassination of a dissident with a poisoned umbrella on Waterloo Bridge; the apparent suicide of 'God's banker', an Italian financier with links to the Vatican, the Masons and the Mafia; and the Marchioness tragedy and its controversial aftermath. Featuring illustrations and photographs old and new, this book will undoubtedly increase the reader's knowledge and appreciation of the bridges and the people who built them, and thereby enhance the pleasure of seeing them, whether at leisure or stuck in a traffic jam.
Author : David Cadman
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015041069710
In Europe these include Old London Bridge, the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, the Ponte di Rialto, Venice, and the Pont de Notre-Dame in Paris, as well as contemporary projects by Richard Rogers, Alsop and Stormer, SITE, Morphosis, Mario Bellini, Bernard Tschumi and other leading architects.
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743217378
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 : Edward HALL (F.S.A.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017915634
Author : Public Works, Roads and Transport Congress, London, 1933. Organising Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Bridges
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046951005
Illustrating the various phases through which the craft of bridge building has passed in the United Kingdom, this text was published to accompany, and provide a record of, the exhibition of photographs of 443 British bridges held in connection with the Public Works, Roads and Transport Congress, 1933.