Tay Bridge Disaster

Author : Robin Lumley
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752499602
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tay Bridge Disaster written by Robin Lumley and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Sunday, 28 December 1879, the 5.27 mail and passenger train from Burntisland to Dundee went out across the world's longest bridge on a black, fierce night, only to be dashed to pieces in the River Tay as the bridge collapsed during one of the worst storms in Scottish history. The Tay Bridge Disaster remains to this day the worst catastrophic failure of a civil engineering structure in Britain – the land equivalent of the Titanic sinking. In this book, author Robin Lumley brings a poignant human perspective to the fateful night in 1879 that shook Britain and the world of engineering to their core and sent a nation into mourning for the seventy-five souls lost to the dark, freezing waters of the River Tay. Packed full of personal tales and offering technical appendices for those who wish to further their specialised knowledge, Tay Bridge Disaster: The People's Story is a must-read for anyone interested in this tragic event in Scottish and British history.

Author : Peter Lewis
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752487639
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Railway Bridge written by Peter Lewis and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 125 years ago, barely a year and a half after the Tay Railway Bridge was built, William McGonnagal composed his poem about the Tay Bridge Disaster, the poem about Britain's worst-ever civil engineering disaster. Over 80 people lost their lives in the fall of the Tay Bridge, but how did it happen? The accident reports say that high wind and poor construction were to blame, but Peter Lewis, an Open University engineering professor, tells the real story of how the bridge so spectacularly collapsed in December 1879.

Author : William Abrams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950154623
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Came Swiftly written by William Abrams and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Came Swiftly is a fictional story inspired by the Tay Bridge disaster of December 1879, when a Scottish viaduct, the longest in the world, collapsed in a violent storm, killing all 74 passengers on a train.

Author : Peter R. Lewis
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752487639
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay written by Peter R. Lewis and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 125 years ago, barely a year and a half after the Tay Railway Bridge was built, William McGonnagal composed his poem about the Tay Bridge Disaster, the poem about Britain's worst-ever civil engineering disaster. Over 80 people lost their lives in the fall of the Tay Bridge, but how did it happen? The accident reports say that high wind and poor construction were to blame, but Peter Lewis, an Open University engineering professor, tells the real story of how the bridge so spectacularly collapsed in December 1879.

Author : John Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tay Bridge Disaster: New Light on the 1879 Tragedy written by John Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles McKean
Publisher : Granta Books (Uk)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battle for the North written by Charles McKean and published by Granta Books (Uk). This book was released on 2006 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a dramatic and scandalous story of the building of the Tay and Forth Bridges and the 19th century railway wars, this work explores the complicated reality underlying the Victorian pursuit of progress.

Author : Ben Lerner
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865478201
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hatred of Poetry written by Ben Lerner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--

Author : William McGonagall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Worst Poet written by William McGonagall and published by . This book was released on 1979-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250228077
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Engineer is Human written by Henry Petroski and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Though ours is an age of high technology, the essence of what engineering is and what engineers do is not common knowledge. Even the most elementary of principles upon which great bridges, jumbo jets, or super computers are built are alien concepts to many. This is so in part because engineering as a human endeavor is not yet integrated into our culture and intellectual tradition. And while educators are currently wrestling with the problem of introducing technology into conventional academic curricula, thus better preparing today’s students for life in a world increasingly technological, there is as yet no consensus as to how technological literacy can best be achieved. " I believe, and I argue in this essay, that the ideas of engineering are in fact in our bones and part of our human nature and experience. Furthermore, I believe that an understanding and an appreciation of engineers and engineering can be gotten without an engineering or technical education. Thus I hope that the technologically uninitiated will come to read what I have written as an introduction to technology. Indeed, this book is my answer to the questions 'What is engineering?' and 'What do engineers do?'" - Henry Petroski, To Engineer is Human

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593470958
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bridge of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Wilder and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pulitzer Prize-winning, fable-like short novel—by the author of Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—has been beloved around the world for nearly a century. This splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." A traveling monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the catastrophe and becomes obsessed with investigating the lives of the five victims in order to prove that their deaths had meaning. His mission is doomed to fail, but over the course of the story, the five unlucky individuals—a noblewoman, a maid, an orphan, an old man, and a child—come to life for the reader in all of their glorious complexity. Their intertwined lives—snuffed out in one shattering moment—illuminate the biggest questions that we can ask ourselves about the nature of love and meaning of the human condition.