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Adam Hart-Davis investigates why the Millennium Bridge wobbled and how it was fixed by building his own wobbling bridge.
Fred Dibnah tours Britain admiring some of the greatest achievements in civil engineering, from the earliest wrought iron suspension bridge to the Channel Tunnel. He also steers a barge across the...
One of Britain’s most terrible railway disasters was the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster, when everyone on board a passenger train was killed when the central section of the bridge toppled into the Firth of Tay....
A compilation of 5 films from the British Transport Films collection. Volume 7 in the series.
Footage from British Movietone newsreels and elsewhere. Shows air, road and rail crashes, buildings collapsing, fires, floods, tornadoes and earthquakes. Air crashes include: the Hindenburg explosion,...
This programme examines the design, construction, and testing of a three-part tension-folding bridge called the "Red Wonder", built in Keil, Germany . Interviews with architects and engineers involved in the...
Chris Wilkinson and his partner Jim Eyre have been in practice in London since 1983. Ten years of research and travel led to publication of a book ‘Supersheds’, and this in turn helped him to be...
Six programmes exploring the limits of human achievement in the field of engineering, focusing on international engineers working on the toughest assignments of their careers. Asks how can we extend physical...
Buildings and bridges, towers and tunnels, spacecraft and ships all require the application of structural principles in their design. Factors such as stress, strain, rigidity, weight, cost, availability of...
Looks at new engineering techniques that have led to innovations in bridge construction. Engineers can now measure more precisely aspects of structure and loading.
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