Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay: Reinvestigating the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879 (Revealing History) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay: Reinvestigating the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879 (Revealing History) Book

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.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    125 years ago, barely a year and a half after the Tay Railway Bridge was built, William McGonnagal was composing his poem about the Tay Bridge Disaster, the worst poem about Britain's worst ever civil engineering disaster. Over eighty people lost...

  • 0752431609
  • 9780752431604
  • Peter R Lewis
  • 1 November 2004
  • The History Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 192
  • Illustrated
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