The Tower Brigde project

In the autumn of 1884, after the rejection by Par­liament of Sir Joseph Bazalgette's subway and of the duplex bridge, the Corporation decided to apply at once for power to construct an opening bridge, and Mr. John Wolfe Barry was appointed engineer to the undertaking, to act in conjunction with Mr. Horace Jones, who was appointed to undertake the architectural duties connected with the structure. The original design of Mr. Jones was then reconsidered, and Mr. Barry and Mr. Jones produced a joint design—shown in Fig. 10—which provided an opening span of a clear width of 200ft., and a clear height of 185ft. above Trinity high-water mark, in lieu of the arched form of construction, as shown in Fig. 9.
The Act of Parliament was passed in the autumn of 1886, and in the summer of 1886 a contract for the foundations of the piers and abutments up to the level of 4ft. above Trinity high-water mark was let. In view of various important modifications introduced into the scheme during the passage of the Act through Parliament, the features of the superstructure required very large modifications, and the engineer and architect had com­menced their investigations and studies necessary for this purpose, when the serious illness and death of Sir Horace Jones, who had received the honour of knight­hood in 1885, put an end to his connection with the undertaking. Since the death of Sir Horace Jones the whole of the architectural duties, as well as those of engineering, have rested on Mr. Barry, and the design of the present bridge, as shown in Fig. 11, is the result of that reconsideration of the Parliamentary design which had just been commenced when Sir Horace Jones was taken ill.
It will be seen that the present design differs in several important particulars, both of...

Daugiau informacijos...

★ Klientai rekomenduoja

Šį rašto darbą rekomenduoja mūsų klientai. Ką tai reiškia?

Mūsų svetainėje pateikiama dešimtys tūkstančių skirtingų rašto darbų, kuriuos įkėlė daugybė moksleivių ir studentų su skirtingais gabumais. Būtent šis rašto darbas yra patikrintas specialistų ir rekomenduojamas kitų klientų, kurie po atsisiuntimo įvertino šį mokslo darbą teigiamai. Todėl galite būti tikri, kad šis pasirinkimas geriausias!