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Peter R. Lewis
The Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay [EPUB ebook]
Reinvestigating the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879

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Over 125 years ago, barely a year and a half after the Tay Railway Bridge was built, William Mc Gonnagal 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.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 160 ● ISBN 9780752487632 ● File size 6.8 MB ● Publisher The History Press ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2484969 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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