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Author | : Robin Lumley |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0752499602 |
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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 | : Peter R. Lewis |
Publisher | : Revealing History (Paperback) |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : Peter Lewis |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2012-05-30 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0752487639 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0752499602 |
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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 | : William Abrams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2021-10-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781950154623 |
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Death Came Swiftly is a fictional story inspired by the Tay Bridge disaster of December 1879, when a Scottish viaduct, the longest in the world, collapsed in a violent storm, killing all 74 passengers on a train.
Author | : Ben Lerner |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0865478201 |
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"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
Author | : John Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Railroad accidents |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Petroski |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1250228077 |
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“Though ours is an age of high technology, the essence of what engineering is and what engineers do is not common knowledge. Even the most elementary of principles upon which great bridges, jumbo jets, or super computers are built are alien concepts to many. This is so in part because engineering as a human endeavor is not yet integrated into our culture and intellectual tradition. And while educators are currently wrestling with the problem of introducing technology into conventional academic curricula, thus better preparing today’s students for life in a world increasingly technological, there is as yet no consensus as to how technological literacy can best be achieved. " I believe, and I argue in this essay, that the ideas of engineering are in fact in our bones and part of our human nature and experience. Furthermore, I believe that an understanding and an appreciation of engineers and engineering can be gotten without an engineering or technical education. Thus I hope that the technologically uninitiated will come to read what I have written as an introduction to technology. Indeed, this book is my answer to the questions 'What is engineering?' and 'What do engineers do?'" - Henry Petroski, To Engineer is Human
Author | : The Open University |
Publisher | : The Open University |
Total Pages | : 127 |
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This free course re-examined the evidence from the enquiry into the Tay railway bridge disaster of 1879, in order to throw more light on the cause.
Author | : David Swinfen |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2016-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857903411 |
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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?