Beautiful Railway Bridge
Download or Read eBook Beautiful Railway Bridge PDF written by Peter Lewis and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Peter Lewis |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2012-05-30 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780752487632 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0752487639 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Beautiful Railway Bridge by : Peter Lewis
Book excerpt: 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.
