Ah, Elm Grove School - my Grandma started school there, on the day it first opened!
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[NSC] Victorian engineering.
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Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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Thank them for the sewers
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Nottseagull
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London only got those because the huge open sewer of the Thames passed right by the Houses of Parliament!
Brok
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- Dec 26, 2011
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Skew brickwork. Very common on bridges with an angle. Beautiful examples everywhere, especially on the canals.
Skew brickwork? OK - didn't know that - or that it was done elsewhere; I'd never seen it before. I'll have to make a point of trying to find some now.
symyjym
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You can't knock the Victorian spirit and will to build the seemingly impossible and always pushing the boundaries.
Leekbrookgull
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Didn't James Firbank engineer a lot to the S/R Lines ?
W.C.
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- Oct 31, 2011
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Great book, from a wonderful writer.
He went to school in Hove.
Tyrone Biggums
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Some of the early engineering and craftsmanship on early bicycles was amazing for the time.
Shaft driven chainless bikes were a nice bit of engineering at the time.
Shaft driven chainless bikes were a nice bit of engineering at the time.
Norman Potting
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Maidenhead Bridge is worth looking up on Wikipedia as it combines amazing brickwork (flattest arch ever) and the genius of Brunel.
I had forgotten his Hove connection - is there a plaque?
Second greatest Britain according to a BBC poll, perhaps due in part to him being half French and receiving part of his education there. It is good that so much of his work survives and still fulfilling it's intended use. Favourite is the "SS Great Britain" at Bristol, its epic rescue and return is amazing in itself.
His dad, Marc, was also a noteworthy engineer and all French. Forced to flee France during the Revolution eventually he settled in England.
Ruddy genius foreign engineers, coming over here, building our infrastructure
I had forgotten his Hove connection - is there a plaque?
Second greatest Britain according to a BBC poll, perhaps due in part to him being half French and receiving part of his education there. It is good that so much of his work survives and still fulfilling it's intended use. Favourite is the "SS Great Britain" at Bristol, its epic rescue and return is amazing in itself.
His dad, Marc, was also a noteworthy engineer and all French. Forced to flee France during the Revolution eventually he settled in England.
Ruddy genius foreign engineers, coming over here, building our infrastructure
Tony Towner's Fridge
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Victorian engineering was truly brilliant. The concept of piers reflected their ability to think and do outside of the box. Brunel engineered some exceptional things, most of which are still here. However for me the greatest engineer of the era, he was actually more Georgian than Victorian has to be, in my opinion, Thomas Telford. A more complete human being than Brunel, he had the vision to see the merit in and implement a modern road infrastructure. He also founded the Institute of Civil Engineers.
TNBA
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TNBA
TTF
Nottseagull
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Wow, I thought shaft drive was a modern development (at least for bicycles). Makes me wonder if the 'new' ceramic drive isn't old technology updated!
Wonder why it didn't catch on? Apparent lack of brakes, maybe, or perhaps it didn't have the facility to freewheel, which makes going downhill almost as hard as going up!
Brok
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- Dec 26, 2011
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Dunno. But I think at one time he was 'Robin Hood', and then 'The Prisoner of Zenda'?
Great actor, anyway.
Barham's tash
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Chirk
That’s awesome. I’ve never heard of it.
To the Victorians engineering on this scale was second nature. It helped create modern Britain and was a get rich quick scheme for investors as a handy byproduct.
The next equivalent (minus the get rich quick scheme) was Apollo in the 60/70’s.
Boringly ours is the Internet and Internet of things.
Wish we had similar grand hard engineering projects of such impact these days.
Nottseagull
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Presuming that aqueduct was built first, you'd have thought that the railway would have approached the canal company with a view to running trains on raised walls, thus creating a tunnel for the boats.
Maidenhead Bridge is worth looking up on Wikipedia as it combines amazing brickwork (flattest arch ever) and the genius of Brunel.
I had forgotten his Hove connection - is there a plaque?
Second greatest Britain according to a BBC poll, perhaps due in part to him being half French and receiving part of his education there. It is good that so much of his work survives and still fulfilling it's intended use. Favourite is the "SS Great Britain" at Bristol, its epic rescue and return is amazing in itself.
His dad, Marc, was also a noteworthy engineer and all French. Forced to flee France during the Revolution eventually he settled in England.
Ruddy genius foreign engineers, coming over here, building our infrastructure
There isn't a plaque because the school, Doctor Morell's, was knocked down when the Kingsway was widened. There is a bus though which is better than a plaque any day of the week.
Tyrone Biggums
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Possibly a cost and time thing. I dare say the more basic classic design was much quicker to assemble.
Another great piece of cycling kit from back then were the Kelly bars. Designed so you could adjust them to suit any position you wished to ride the bike in. Their fate like the shaft driven drives was probably down to cost to produce vs standard bars.
Madafwo
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- Nov 11, 2013
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One of my favourite things about Clayton Tunnel is the Northern portal.
And to quote Wikipedia, the Southern portal is relatively unremarkable.