Chepstow
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Papers on engineering and inventions, 1848 - 1852
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/452
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers regarding engineering and new inventions. There are pieces on the Britannia Tubular Bridge, including the lifting of the bridge by R. Stephenson; stress in iron bridges; I.K. Brunel on his Chepstow bridge; notices and awards of the Institution of Civil Engineers; the Smeafonian Society for Civil Engineers; 'Caldwell's self-fleeting windlass'; advertisements for gutta percha; a report on vulcanised India-rubber joints by T. Wicksteed; a rapid water...
Dates:
1848 - 1852
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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