. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature. 1 feet(Allen), and the rise 26 feet 3 inches. The well-known Pont Neuf at Paris was built in design has no feature calling for special remark. shows the bridge over the Conway at Llanrwst inWales, the design for which was furnished by Inigo Jonesin 1634. The middle arch has a span of 58 feet. Thestructure is easily set in vibration, and is known as the shaking bridge. Further particulars concerning thisand many other old English bridges will be found inSmiless Lives of the Ertgineers, ch
. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature. 1 feet(Allen), and the rise 26 feet 3 inches. The well-known Pont Neuf at Paris was built in design has no feature calling for special remark. shows the bridge over the Conway at Llanrwst inWales, the design for which was furnished by Inigo Jonesin 1634. The middle arch has a span of 58 feet. Thestructure is easily set in vibration, and is known as the shaking bridge. Further particulars concerning thisand many other old English bridges will be found inSmiless Lives of the Ertgineers, chap. iiL voL ii., edition1874. A bridge over the Senderud at Ispahan is describedas follows in Hecks Iconographic Encyclopcedia, withillustrations:— It (the bridge) is 2250 feet long, 120feet high, and 156 feet broad; the middle way is 60 feetbroad, and the sideways are paved with marble, and thelatter lead through arcades, to which the ascent is by stairs BXAUPLE!;.] BRIDGES 333 the four towers of the bridge. The bridge has 29 on each face. The roadway is 11 feet wide over the centre. -Old Bridge at York. arches of 50 feet span, and the pillars are 25 feet the illustration the arches are Moorish, and the coveredsideways lofty, with 3 arches of small span over eachmain arch of the bridge. The design is remarkably calls it the bridge of Barbaruh, and states that it isnamed from its builder, but it is of unknown the bridges of Ispahanare said, in the 7th edition ofthe present work, to have teen built under Shah Abbas I.(1585 to 1628). Heck mentions a bridge at Lioyang in. China, said tohave a length of 26,800 feet, and another at Focheu22,000 feet long, both from 60 to 70 feet wide. § 76. 1700 to 1817.—Old Westminster Bridge (Labelye)and Old Blackfriars Bridge (Mylne), both of which havenow been removed, were built in the middle of the 18thcentury. Their failure after so short a period was due toa defective system of foundation and to the incr
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