Author : John Thomas
Publisher : Douglas David & Charles
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Railroad accidents
ISBN : 9780715354285
Author : John Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Railroad accidents
ISBN :
Author : John Prebble
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 1956
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Peter R. Lewis
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0752487639
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.
Author : Robin Lumley
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,37 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0752499602
One hundred and thirty-five years after the event, the Tay Bridge Disaster remains the single most catastrophic collapse of a British engineering structure. The fateful day in 1879 shook Britain and the world of engineering to their core and sent a nation into mourning for the seventy-five souls lost to the dark, freezing waters of the Tay River. Here Lumley gives the collapse a much wider perspective than the event of one night by delving into the lives of those lost to the disaster, both passengers and railway workers, against a background of a wider Scottish history. Packed full of personal tales and with more technical appendices for those that wish to further their technical knowledge, The Tay Bridge Disaster is a must read for anyone interested in this poignant event of Scottish and British history.
Author : Robin Lumley
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0752499602
On Sunday, 28 December 1879, the 5.27 mail and passenger train from Burntisland to Dundee went out across the world's longest bridge on a black, fierce night, only to be dashed to pieces in the River Tay as the bridge collapsed during one of the worst storms in Scottish history. The Tay Bridge Disaster remains to this day the worst catastrophic failure of a civil engineering structure in Britain – the land equivalent of the Titanic sinking. In this book, author Robin Lumley brings a poignant human perspective to the fateful night in 1879 that shook Britain and the world of engineering to their core and sent a nation into mourning for the seventy-five souls lost to the dark, freezing waters of the River Tay. Packed full of personal tales and offering technical appendices for those who wish to further their specialised knowledge, Tay Bridge Disaster: The People's Story is a must-read for anyone interested in this tragic event in Scottish and British history.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 1880*
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN :
Author : David Swinfen
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0857903411
It took 600 men six years to build, and was one of the longest bridges in the world. On its completion in 1878, famous visitors, including the Emperor of Brazil, Prince Leopold of the Belgians and Queen Victoria herself, came to pay homage to this marvel of Victorian engineering. Then, on the night of 28 December 1879, the unthinkable happened. Battered by an apocalyptic storm, the thirteen 'high girders' of the rail bridge over the Tay estuary fell headlong into the river below, carrying with them a train with all its passengers and crew. There were no survivors. What caused the fall of the Tay Bridge, and who was really to blame? Returning to the subject since the first edition of The Fall of the Tay Bridge in 1994, David Swinfen has meticulously analysed new evidence and now presents a solution to the riddle which has perplexed historians and engineers for generations: what really brought the bridge down?
Author : Nancy Davey
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Disasters
ISBN : 9780900344558
Author : David I Harvie
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2006-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0752495054
Presenting the story of Gustave Eiffel, this book examines the conception, and controversial construction of the tower that bears his name, one of the most famous tall buildings in the world. Just at the point of his greatest success, he signed contracts for the project which was to bring scandal on his name - the Panama Canal.
