THE FORTH BRIDGE COMPLETED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue II, 10 December 1889, Page 2

THE FORTH BRIDGE COMPLETED.

An exchange states that Dhe greatest engineering' work. of its kind, and perhaps of any kind, the world has yet seen com*|rt«ted, one of its: stages on Oct- 10, whflft the south caMilevers of the Forth Bridge— 1 those befcw&i* Queensfeny -'anil inchgarvie— were stfc«ssfully joinstf. i Advantage was taken of Ufee fine day id cikity ou<i this interestfete an 4 delicate opeYatJon l , .which ha« Ibeew delayed by recent <i&# a/nd stormsAt the last moment there Wa's : w gap* : of three-quarters of an inch tdtween ffebe 1 bolt holes,' but by means «£ I hydlatifie jacks and by lighting a" fire of napht&a waste in the trough of thegirdes, the 1 fleeessary expansion was secured. Mr Arrol struck the first bolt, and* the reat. were itsmediately thereafter driven home. M. Eiitfel and $wo hund-ed French engineers are expected to visit the t bi-idge. It ■ wi'l interest them to see* si work each arch of which is equali in lengfl* to two Eiffel Towess projected ovei' ann arm of the- sea till they meet, and in jtoaiss many times' ps ponderous. In boldness „of conception, not less than in. tbe enormous dimensions and hitherto unheard-of weigjits of material, UlO 1 Korth Bridge has had no parallel.