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Engineers and Their Triumphs

by F. M. Holmes

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — First Steps
  3. 3Chapter II — Glancing Backwards and Struggling Forwards
  4. 4Chapter III — Fifteen Miles an Hour
  5. 5Chapter IV — A Marvel of Mechanism
  6. 6Chapter V — A Mile a Minute
  7. 7Chapter I — The “Comet” Appears
  8. 8Chapter II — To the Narrow Seas
  9. 9Chapter III — On the Open Ocean
  10. 10Chapter IV — The Ocean Race
  11. 11Chapter V — Before the Furnace
  12. 12Chapter I — “The Bridge by the Earthen House”
  13. 13Chapter II — A New Idea — The Britannia Tubular
  14. 14Chapter III — Lattice and Suspension Bridges
  15. 15Chapter IV — The Greatest Bridge in the World
  16. 16Chapter V — The Tower Bridge
  17. 17Chapter I — How Brunel Made a Boring-Shield
  18. 18Chapter II — Under the River
  19. 19Chapter III — Through the Alps
  20. 20Chapter IV — Under Water Again

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