The Forth Bridges Through Time

Author: Michael Meighan
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445640104
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Forth Bridges have changed and developed over the last century.

The Forth Bridge

Author: Sheila McKay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780276960
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
The Forth Bridge was the greatest engineering feat the Victorian world had ever seen and remains, to this day, one of the great achievements of mankind. The Forth Bridge: A Picture History, tells the dramatic story of its construction using rare archive photographs.

The Briggers

Author: Elspeth Wills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781839830044
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
The Forth Bridge has long been recognised as one of the finest examples of Victorian engineering on the planet and has achieved an iconic status as one of the great feats of western civilisation since its official opening in 1890. Lavishly illustrated throughout with stunning archive images, Elspeth Wills uncovers the human story behind 'the engineering marvel': the story of the Briggers. It is a story that has never been told before - of ordinary men working on an extraordinary structure in an often hostile and dangerous environment. Recognised throughout the world as an enduring icon of Scotland, the Forth Bridge is more than just a testament to the genius of Victorian engineering, it is a monument to all those who worked to realise its vision and to the scores of lives that were lost in the process. In this groundbreaking new work, Elspeth Wills gives a voice to the forgotten heroes who helped to make the ambition of the Bridge a reality.

The Forth Bridge

Author: Sir Benjamin Baker
Publisher: [London : s.n.], 1884 (London : Bedford Press)
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description

Britain's Greatest Bridges

Author: Joseph Rogers
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144568442X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
From the world-renowned to the minor and the modest take a look at this lavishly illustrated look at some of Britain's best loved and iconic bridges.

The Bridge

Author: Iain Banks
Publisher: Little Brown GBR
ISBN: 9780316858540
Category : Amnesia
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night there are his dreams. Dreams in which desperate men drive sealed carriages across barren mountains to a bizarre rendezvous; an illiterate barbarian storms an enchanted tower under a stream of verbal abuse; and broken men walk forever over bridges without end, taunted by visions of a doomed sexuality. Lying in bed unconscious after an accident wouldn't be much fun, you'd think. Oh yes? It depends who and what you've left behind. Which is the stranger reality, day or night? Frequently hilarious and consistently disturbing, THE BRIDGE is a novel of outrageous contrasts, constructed chaos and elegant absurdities.

History of the Forth Bridge

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forth Bridge (South Queensferry, Scotland : Railroad bridge)
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description

Battle for the North

Author: Charles McKean
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410

Book Description
Presenting a dramatic and scandalous story of the building of the Tay and Forth Bridges and the 19th century railway wars, this work explores the complicated reality underlying the Victorian pursuit of progress.

Inverkeithing & North Queensferry Through Time

Author: Eric Simpson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445628945
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Inverkeithing & North Queensferry have changed and developed over the last century

The Bridge on the Drina

Author: Ivo Andríc
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226020457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
"A great stone bridge built three centuries ago in the heart of the Balkans ... stands witness to the countless lives played out upon it" and to the sufferings of the people of Bosnia.--Cover.