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Slide set: The principle and construction of the Forth Bridge (lecture: G.W. Wilson, 12 slides, 1889)

Known references to this set (listed below slide images)
Show
Slide 1
Longitudinal Section
Slide 2
Tableau of Principle
Slide 3**
Cross Section at Pier
Slide 4
Skeleton Plan, Showing Taper
Slide 5**
Caissons Floating out
Slide 6
Foundations, Queensferry
Slide 7
Cantilever, Upright Part
Slide 8**
Mode of Building Out Cantilever
Slide 9**
Progress of Work
Slide 10**
End of Shore Cantilever
Slide 11


no image available
Slide 12**
Bridge Completed
** there are alternative versions or views of this slide
October 1890
The optical magic lantern journal: volume 2 number 17 (October 1890), v

“12 Slides (half of them drawings, and half of them from the actual building), describing the Principle and Construction of this remarkable Bridge.”

Catalogue entries (3)
1891
1898
Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 180

“Half of these Slides are from Drawings and Half from the Actual Structure.”

1906
Lucerna ID  3000188

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 20 September 2024

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