Capitolo 14
his/her appointment as provincial surveyor. His/her beautiful iron bridge through the
Severn to Form was it was another application of his/her metal of favourite to the
the necessities of the new world that you/he/she was gradually growing in industrial
England; and so satisfied it was him with the result of his/her experiment (for
although not completely the first one, was one of the first iron bridges
he/she ever built) that he proposed another magnificent idea that
unfortunately you/he/she was never brought in execution. The old London Bridge had
started to find a trembling trifle; and instead of reconstructing him/it Telford,
desired to cross the whole river from an only iron arc which splendid
dimensions would have formed one of the most extraordinary engineering
you triumph they ever invented. The scheme, for of the good reason, undoubtedly it was
not adopted; but it is impossible to look at the great sketch of Telford of
the proposed bridge--an only daring arc, bending through the Thames from
you side to side, with the dome of St Paul you/he/she is majestically rising above of him--
without a feeling of regret that such noble piece of theoretical
of architecture account was made never in actual fact.
Telford had now come to the great practical authority to be considered
on everybody that interested roads or communications; and he was reaping the
due money-reward of his/her diligence and the ability. Him has called every day
on to draw new bridges and the other important structures in all the parts
of the kingdom, but more especially in Scotland and on the Welsh border.
Many gods more picturesque bridges in Britain that has every tourist
admired, often without asking or to think about the hand that has planned
they, was drawn by his/her inventive brain. The delicious arc of stone
what connections the two banks of the smaller Scottish Goddesses in his/her throat to
Tongueland is one of the most picturesque; for Telford it was some a
artist to heart, and, otherwise from too much many modern builders of platform, him
always endeavoured to make his/her bridges and aqueducts embellish rather