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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....
Footage from British Movietone newsreels. Shows man-made disasters featuring plane, train, boat and helicopter crashes, ships sinking and bridges collapsing. Natural disasters covered include floods,...
Strong materials are required to make bridges, and wood or stone were replaced by iron as large blast furnaces came along. The superior tensile properties of iron allowed bridge builders to use new designs,...
Shows the various stages of construction in the building of the superstructure of the Humber Bridge. Describes the spinning of the main suspension cables, the raising of the road deck units to completion of...
In October 1970, a span of West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapsed under construction. Redpath Dorman Long International were called in as the new joint contractors to reassess, re-design and help complete...
Discusses the efforts of scientists to deal with the often destructive forces of wind through the science of wind engineering. Shows the collapse of a suspension bridge due to ‘resonance effects’....
The bridge, opened at the end of October 1973 to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic, is the longest single span suspension bridge in Europe. The film covers the project from...
Robert Stephenson’s Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1970. Shows the reconstruction of the bridge, with steel arches supporting and eventually replacing...
Shows the manufacture of factory-produced pre-stressed concrete beams. Demonstrates with the aid of diagrams, how each type of unit is used to form a bridge deck. These operations are then shown in the...
London’s Hammersmith Flyover was constructed to carry westbound traffic over the approach roads to Hammersmith Broadway. The superstructure of the flyover is of prestressed concrete construction supported...
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