. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. BRIDGE ON THE RIVER. SIliEUIA. show for his work; and a fine speci-men of bridge-mechanics—pne of hisprides—is for ever lost, so to speak,under the feet of the casual observer,and only his fellow-engineers can ap-preciate his work. Further, the under-bow may prove a serious obstacle in theevent (if subsequent deepening of a. XEsIIXG Tin-: IJIUDGE OVER THE KI\ EK T.\U, STllKUIA. ter herewith proves that. There arenumbers of parabolic or bow-trussbridges along the trans-Cibirian—allmere copies of western Europe designs,without a sug
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. BRIDGE ON THE RIVER. SIliEUIA. show for his work; and a fine speci-men of bridge-mechanics—pne of hisprides—is for ever lost, so to speak,under the feet of the casual observer,and only his fellow-engineers can ap-preciate his work. Further, the under-bow may prove a serious obstacle in theevent (if subsequent deepening of a. XEsIIXG Tin-: IJIUDGE OVER THE KI\ EK T.\U, STllKUIA. ter herewith proves that. There arenumbers of parabolic or bow-trussbridges along the trans-Cibirian—allmere copies of western Europe designs,without a suggestion of diversity, oreven crankism—because the averageRussian mind is not even inventive stream to render it navigable for evenminor craft. Stone-work on the bridges wasmostly done by Italian contract laborimported from Garibaldi-land; the ironwork was all Russian, and erectedby Russian mechanics—mostly from the vast railroad systems of the Rus-sian union, nor the suspension. In fact,divers of the engineers asked whatwas meant by cantilever. I told them;also of the ancientness of the word—derived from Arabik kanlard, meaningbridge. In Espafia there is an ancientArab-named city called Alkantara (lit.,I he bridge), the place being namedafter the old bridge of the town, whichstill exists from Arab times. The dic-tionary-given origins of cantileverare wrong. Those were the
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