Untertitel:: Reinvestigating the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879
Verlag:: THE HISTORY PRESS
Erschienen:: 30.05.2012
Seitenanzahl:: 160
ISBN:: 0752487639
EAN:: 9780752487632
Sprache:: Englisch
Format:: EPUB
Schutz:: Dig. Wass.
Downloadzeit:: Maximale Downloadanzahl: 6

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The Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay

Peter R. Lewis

Over 125 years ago, barely a year and a half after the Tay Railway Bridge was built, William McGonnagal composed his poem about the Tay Bridge Disaster, the poem about Britain's worst-ever civil engineering disaster. Over 80 people lost their lives in the fall of the Tay Bridge, but how did it happen? The accident reports say that high wind and poor construction were to blame, but Peter Lewis, an Open University engineering professor, tells the real story of how the bridge so spectacularly collapsed in December 1879.