John Fowler, Benjamin Baker, Forth Bridge : Opus 18
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
OPUS
ISBN-10
3930698188
ISBN-13
9783930698189
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges
Imprint
Edition Axel Menges
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 19th, 1997
Print length
60 Pages
Weight
844 grams
Dimensions
30.60 x 28.90 x 1.20 cms
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Talks about the Forth Bridge - the longest railway bridge in the world and the first large structure made of steel. Crossing the wide Firth of Forth west of Edinburgh in Scotland, it represents one of the greatest engineering triumphs of Victorian Britain, man's victory over the intractable topography of land and water.
When the Forth Bridge opened on 4 March 1890 it was the longest railway bridge in the world and the first large structure made of steel. Crossing the wide Firth of Forth east of Edinburgh, it represents one of the greatest engineering triumphs of Victorian Britain, man’s victory over the intractable topography of land and water. Not surprisingly, such a vigorous rebuff of the natural order was condemned at the time by those late Victorians who resisted the march of technology, and William Morris described the Bridge as the »supremest specimen of all ugliness«. In response, Benjamin Baker insisted that its beauty lay in its functional elegance. Contrasting his masterpiece with the only comparable structure of the period, the Eiffel Tower, he concluded: »The Eiffel Tower is a foolish piece of work, ugly, illproportioned and of no real use to anyone.
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