- Taschenbuch: 192 Seiten
- Verlag: Tempus (1. November 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0752431609
- ISBN-13: 978-0752431604
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 24,9 x 17,8 x 1,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 684.052 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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A history of the beautiful railway bridge of the Silvery Tay
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By the beginning of 1879, it swept in a smooth arc across the water, thrilling dignitaries at the very sight of it. Queen Victoria rode over it on her way south from Balmoral. Its practical purpose was largely to bring Dundee closer to the textile markets, and vice versa, but its arches and rails spoke more of the beauty of human accomplishment tha
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The British Empire was suffering in the year 1879. Zulus had massacred a brigade of 1500 soldiers and then the Viceroy in Kabul was butchered by native Afghans, after a mistaken invasion from India. Disraeli, the prime minister, was dying from an incurable disease, and the economy was deeply depressed by competition from Europe and the USA. Then at the very end of the year, the longest bridge in the world collapsed in a storm. The bridge had only been approved by the Government 2 years before, and the public enquiry which followed was the largest ever undertaken. It uncovered a series of design defects, sloppy construction and poor maintenance, and the judges blamed the engineer Sir Thomas Bouch personally. He died within months. This new book reinvestigates the disaster using modern forensic methods, especially the large archive of high quality photographs taken for the enquiry. By enlarging digital images, the author claims to have found evidence for fatigue cracking of a weak part made from cast iron. The pictures also show the many design defects in the metalwork described by the enquiry, but never published before. Some modern engineers blame the high winds that night, but this author speaks firmly for defective design. The shock of the disaster led directly to the magnificent Forth rail bridge, and many other reforms, but the catastrophe remains firmly in the folk memory as an accident-waiting-to-happen.
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1879 was bad year for the British nation. A whole brigade of 1500 soldiers had been massacred in Zululand, and their envoy to Afghanistan butchered by the Afghans in Kabul. Its economy was deeply depressed by competition from rising stars like Germany and the USA, and then the world's longest and largest bridge collapsed in a storm on December 28th. An entire express train fell with the bridge, killing over 75 people. The story is retold by Peter Lewis in this thrilling account of the tragedy, and the enquiry whcih followed. He has analysed the many superb photographs taken after the disaster using forensic methods, and concluded that this was a badly designed and built structure. Disaster was inevitable, but no-one wanted to tell the truth about its many defects. The engineer Bouch died shortly after the damning verdict and a new generation of engineers created much more durable bridges, like the Forth rail bridge built nearby. Even today some want to blame the high winds that night, but it was just the final event in a sequence of deterioration. We should all heed the warnings of those far-off tragedies.
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truth at last!
6. Januar 2005
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The rail disaster at the Tay bridge shocked the whole world in 1879: it was the longest bridge in the world, and collapsed during a storm, taking a passenger train to its doom. There were no survivors. This new evaluation of the tragedy shows why it occurred, and counters all previous speculation that it was the storm which caused the accident. In fact, the bridge was badly designed, and built on the cheap. Perfectly good bridges had been built of cast iron columns braced with wrought iron by Eiffel in France, and still carry trains to this day. The Tay bridge started to suffer irreparable damage of its joints from the day that it carried trains, and the author shows that metal fatigue played a key role in its deterioration. The final catastrophe occurred when the damaged joints reached criticality, and over half a mile of the bridge fell with the train. The lessons learnt gave birth to the magnificent Forth Bridge, which like the Booklyn bridge, remain ikons of engineering skill to this day.
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Very interesting book, great read
6. Januar 2007
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I purchased this book for an Advanced Materials Science course I was taking and I found that not only was it extremely useful for my paper but it was also a great read. This book goes through the events and gives quite a bit of detail on what happened and why. The book goes through transcripts from the inquiry after the disaster which I found interesting. The event was photographed pretty extensively and the author goes through the pictures and tells you what to look for and why.
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