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Excerpt from Dredge's Suspension Bridge Explained Upon the Principles of the Lever: To Which Are Added, a Specification of the Quantities of Material Used in the Suspension Bridge at Balloch Perry, Dunbartonshire and an Ecometrical Projection On a subsequent occasion my attention was again directed to the same object, and having in the interval been shown a drawing, which was intended to illustrate the effects of the new principle as compared with those of the old, I was led to the detection of the general term on which the solution depends, and in a few days after, the theory, as discussed in the following pages, was drawn up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.