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By Ted Ruddock

For 2,000 years the main sturdy spanning buildings were outfitted of masonry, and the surviving bridges of the Roman Empire have challenged grasp masons, architects and engineers to emulate and surpass them. Down the centuries, bridge-builders were commissioned via monarchs, bishops, councils of country, towns, inner most members and, extra lately, waterway and railway businesses. The reviews gathered during this quantity concentration mainly at the bridges, viaducts and aqueducts themselves and the activities of the designers and developers, but in addition surround the political, monetary and social contexts and results in their production. well-known bridges in Britain, Italy, France, Iran and america are all featured. Narratives of perception, layout and development predominate, yet there also are papers on development ideas, at the research of documentary resources, and at the carrying on with seek by means of glossy engineers for passable medical description of the energy and balance of arch bridges.

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