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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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语言英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 160 ● ISBN 9780752487632 ● 文件大小 6.8 MB ● 出版者 The History Press ● 市 London ● 国家 GB ● 发布时间 2012 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2484969 ● 复制保护 社会DRM

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