Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VII.: G. Rennie

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98 RENNIE, G., 21 Whitehall Place.

1. Model of a stone bridge proposed for Westminster, and submitted to the Committee of the House of Commons in 1846. Total length, 827 feet; number of arches, 7; total waterway, 768 feet. Spans of arches— Middle arch, 130 feet; two arches, each 120 feet; two arches, 100 feet; two arches, 95 feet. Height above Thames high water— Middle arch, 27 feet; two arches, each 25 feet; two arches, 23 feet; two arches, 20 feet.

2. Model of a bridge proposed for Westminster. Total length, 752 feet; number of arches, 5; total waterway, 690 feet. Middle arch, 150 feet; two side arches, 140 feet; two side arches, 130 feet. Height above tidal waterway— Middle arch, 27 feet 6 inches; two side arches, 25 feet; two side arches, 24 feet.

3. Model of a bridge proposed for Westminster. Number of arches, 7; spans, each 100 feet; height above Thames high water, 26 feet.

4. Model of a bridge recently constructed over the river Meuse, in Belgium, for the Namur and Liege Railway, at Val St. Lambert. Length, 525 feet; number of arches, 5; width, 26 feet; spans, each 80 feet; versed sine, 10 feet.

5. Model for a bow and string girder bridge, proposed to carry the Prussian Railway over the Rhine at Cologne, agreeably to the programme of the Prussian Government. Span of each opening, 572 feet; span of drawbridge, 96 feet, by George Banks Rennie, jun.

6. Model of a design of a Harbour of Refuge for Dover, submitted to the Commissioners, by the same.

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