Iron Bridge Shopshire
For many years mystery has surrounded the construction of the Iron Bridge in Shropshire Despite its pioneering technology in 1779 as the first structural use of cast iron no eye witness accounts are known which describe the Iron Bridge being erected However recent discoveries research and experiments have shed new light on the mystery of exactly how it was built challenging the assumptions of recent decades In 1997 a small watercolour sketch by Elias Martin came to light in Stockholm
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