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BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859). Autograph letter signed ('I.K. Brunel') to C.M. ?Munden, 18 Duke Street, Westminster, 23 January 1856, 'I am obliged to go tonight to the Saltash bridge works', and discussing a difficulty negotiation with one 'Tyrrell', 'It would be a great relief indeed to me to see this matter so unprofitable and so wearying to me settled', three pages, 8vo, on a bifolium (blank page rather browned).
Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge, which crossed the Tamar at Saltash in two spans of 455 feet each with a central pier built on the rock 80 feet below the high-water mark, was one of two innovatory wrought-iron truss bridges he built for the Great Western network; it opened to traffic shortly before his death in 1859.
Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge, which crossed the Tamar at Saltash in two spans of 455 feet each with a central pier built on the rock 80 feet below the high-water mark, was one of two innovatory wrought-iron truss bridges he built for the Great Western network; it opened to traffic shortly before his death in 1859.
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