Index:Forth Bridge (1890).djvu
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LIST OF PLATES. plate I. Portrait of Sir John Fowler, K.C.M.G.
II. Portrait of Mr. Benjamin Baker.
III. The Forth Bridge.
IV. General View of Bridge; South Central Girder Connected; North Central Girder not Completed.
V. General View of Site Looking North-East. Caisson Building on Launching Ways.
VI. View from Inchgarvie Castle. The South Caisson in Position.
VII. Launching of Caisson for South-West Pier, Inchgarvie.—General View of Site, with Piers of South Approach Viaduct, Looking North.—Building of North-East Circular Granite Pier, Inchgarvie.—Caisson for Queensferry North-West Pier. Constructing Timber Casing Round the Tilted Caisson.
VIII. Front View of North Cantilever End Pier, and View of Viaduct and Arches.—North Approach Viaduct; Raising Viaduct Girders.—North Approach Viaduct; Girders Raised to Full Height.
IX. Fife Pier. Erection of Superstructure; Construction of Lifting Platforms.—Inchgarvie Pier. Erection of Superstructure; Rivetting Cages and Hydraulic Rivetting Machines on Vertical Columns and Diagonal Strut.—Fife Pier. Erection of Superstructure; Lifting Platforms about 100 ft. above High Water.—Cage for Rivetting and Building Bottom Members.
X. Queensferry Pier, looking North. Platforms about 190 ft. above High-Water Level.
XI. Queensferry Pier, looking North. Platforms Raised to Full Height.—Fife Pier, looking South. Platforms Raised to Full Height.—Fife Pier from the North-West. Platforms Raised to Full Height.
XII. Fife Cantilever. Side Elevation Looking East.
XIII. Effect of Sea Fog. Central Tower and South Approach Viaduct.—H.M.S. "Devastation" passing Fife Pier.—General View of Central Towers and Approach Viaducts, looking North.—Queensferry North-East Pier. Putting together Upper Bedplate.
XIV. Inchgarvie Pier. Rivetting in Top Members between Vertical Columns.—Queensferry Pier. Intersection of Diagonal Struts with Horizontal and Diagonal Bracing Girders.
XV. Fife Pier. First Half-Bay in Fixed Cantilever, showing Lifting Platform for Building the Lower Portion of Bay, and Top Member Crane with Platform Suspended from it.—Making Good a Crossing between Struts and Tiers in First Bay of Cantilever.
XVI. Central Tower, Queensferry Pier; Horizontal and Diagonal Bracing Girders; Part of Internal Viaduct and Temporary Staging.—Queensferry Pier. Internal Viaduct from Centre of Bay to within Central Towers.
XVII. Fife Pier. Lower Half of First Bay in Fixed Cantilever.—Fife Pier. Central Tower and Lower Half of First Bay in Free Cantilever.
XVIII. Fife Pier. Cantilever Completed and Central Girder Commenced; Fixed Cantilever not Quite Completed.
XIX. Queensferry Pier and Inchgarvie South Cantilever, with Parts of Central Girder Built Out.—Inchgarvie South Cantilever, with First Bay of Central Girder Built Out.—Central Tower on Inchgarvie; Internal Viaduct Girders and Wind Fence.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Portrait of Mr. W. Arrol APPENDIX.
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