Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Achievements in Engineering: During the Last Half Century
If this book should succeed in stimulating, and also to some extent in satisfying, the interest felt by most persons in large engineering works, and should lead to a due appreciation of the principles on which such works are designed, the methods by which they are carried out, and the difficulties experienced in their construction, and, moreover, if the book should establish the claim of these works to be classed amongst the events of our own time, ' the objects aimed at will be accomplished.
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