The Canal Builders: The Men Who Constructed Britain's Canals by Anthony Burton
Author:Anthony Burton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Marine & Naval
ISBN: 9781473870352
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2015-11-30T00:00:00+00:00
The spectacular Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, crossing the Dee near Llangollen. (British Waterways)
An engineering drawing of a section of Pontcysyllte, showing how the iron sections were bolted together. (Institution of Civil Engineers)
Telford himself gave details of the methods they employed during construction:
âThe stone piers are 18 in number, beside the two abutment piers; they were all built to the level of 20 feet, and then the scaffolding and gangways were all raised to that level, and the materials being brought from the north bank, the workmen always commenced at the most distant or south abutment pier, receding pier by pier to the north bank; and by this ascending from time to time in their work they felt no more apprehension of danger when on the highest, than at first on the lowest gangways.â
Thomas Telford, op. cit.
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