Author: George Fillmore SwainPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656512027
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Excerpt from The Hitchcock Lectures of the University of California, 1918 This bridge as planned was to have a single span of 1800 feet, the longest span in the world. The main structure was a canti lever bridge, of three spans, located about seven miles above the City of Quebec. The largest span is ninety feet longer than the two spans of the Forth Bridge, which was completed in 1889. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
