Iron Bridge, England : Hefte zur Baukunst Volume 2
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Hefte zur Baukunst
ISBN-10
386206848X
ISBN-13
9783862068487
Publisher
DruckVerlag Kettler
Imprint
DruckVerlag Kettler
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 28th, 2020
Print length
44 Pages
Weight
92 grams
Product Classification:
Architectural structure & designBridges
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Hefte zur Baukunst, a publication series issued by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, puts the spotlight on architectural structures that are of historic importance, documenting their background, development, and professional restoration. Text in English and German.
Hefte zur Baukunst, a publication series issued by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, puts the spotlight on architectural structures that are of historic importance, documenting their background, development, and professional restoration.
The second volume in the series is devoted to the Iron Bridge, which crosses the River Servern, in Shropshire, 60km to the northwest of Birmingham. Owing to its vast resources of iron ore and coal, the region is known as the birthplace of Great Britain’s Industrial Revolution. In order to establish a reliable link between the mines and factories situated on both sides of the River Severn, an initiative was set up in the 18th century to replace the unstable wooden bridge with a modern iron construction.
The architect Thomas Farnolls Pritchard (1723–1777) and his technical advisor John Wilkinson (1728–1808) designed a structure that had no precedent. They could not draw on any previous data since nobody at the time had any experience with, or had ever calculated, the load-bearing capacity of an iron structure. In the end, the bridge reputedly required a total of 385 tons of cast iron and more than 1,700 individual pieces. Instead of bolts and rivets, merely dovetails and tenon and mortise joints were used.
Text in English and German.
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