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An Account of the Construction of the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges,
by FAIRBAIRN William 1789-1874
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Llandudno, Conwy, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: No 59 High Holborn, and Paternoster Row.: John Weale, and Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans,, 1849. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. VG, 1st ed, 1849, 20 pls, complete. In contemporary black quarter morocco over purple cloth, corners rubbed, edges faded. Spine, gilt tooling & titles, edges rubbed. Internally, frontis, [5], (vi-xii), [1], 2-291 pp, 20 pls (19 folding), 74 illustrations within text, yellow endpapers, some occasional light spotting, printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, short tears or fraying to fore-margins, some old paper repairs, short gutter tear to 2 pls, not affecting pls. (248*153 mm). (Alibone 571). Fairbairn was the greatest mill-builder and experimental engineer of the middle quarters of the nineteenth century, a major contributor to iron shipbuilding during the critical decade 1835-44, and to wrought-iron bridges during two of the most formative decades in bridge-building, 1845-64. He advanced understanding of material strengths and properties which he applied in the design of multi-storey iron-framed mills, wrought iron ships (where he made a significant contribution to understanding the response to changing forces on the hull) and bridges. Fairbairn built 1000 bridges and his major contribution was in the design, testing and manufacture of iron bridges made from long riveted tubular section girders. (Engineering Hall of Fame).
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- Bookseller
- Madoc Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006859
- Title
- An Account of the Construction of the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges,
- Author
- FAIRBAIRN William 1789-1874
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Weale, and Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans,
- Place of Publication
- London: No 59 High Holborn, and Paternoster Row.
- Date Published
- 1849
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
- Weight
- 2.43 lbs
- Keywords
- Wales Britannia Conway engineering tubular bridges
- Bookseller catalogs
- Roads Bridges Railways and Trains;
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
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- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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- VG
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- Gutter
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