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An Account of the Construction of the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges,
by FAIRBAIRN William [Sir] 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. HUXLEY George. LOWRY JW.. Early stream train image. VG, 1st ed, 1849, 20 pls In the publishers maroon quarter morocco over maroon cloth, faded at edges, corners bumped. Spine, gilt titles & tooling, edges worn. Internally, folding frontis, [5], (vi-xii), [1], 2-291 pp, 20 pls (mostly folding, including frontis), some plates with repaired crease tears, 74 illustrations within text, small bookbinder label to fpd, printed by R & JE Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. Uncommon. (248*150 mm). (Allibone 571). Fairbairn assisted Robert Stephenson with the design of the tubular bridge over the Menai Strait. The bridge was successfully raised in April 1848, but there was later a controversy over Fairbairn's contribution. In order to put the record straight he published his own version of events, An account of the construction of the Britannia and Conway tubular bridges, with a complete history of their progress (1849). He and Stephenson had also in October 1846 jointly taken out a patent for the new principle of wrought-iron girders that had been devised for the bridge. See ODNB.
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- Bookseller
- Madoc Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007501
- Title
- An Account of the Construction of the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges,
- Author
- FAIRBAIRN William [Sir] 1789-1874
- Illustrator
- HUXLEY George. LOWRY JW.
- 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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