The Story of The Iron Bridge - Building the Bridge

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  • Опубліковано 2 бер 2017
  • The story of the Iron Bridge - Part 2
    Successful construction of the Iron Bridge spanning the Severn Gorge, Shropshire, UK was a milestone in the early industrial revolution which shaped the modern world. The first bridge to use wrought iron rather than wood and stone, it created challenges for the visionary men who designed and built it.
    David de Haan, Direct of the Ironbridge Trust 1998-2012 tells the story.
    Also see part 1 which explores the history of the Iron Bridge.

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  • @webspaghetti
    @webspaghetti 3 роки тому +3

    Excellent explanation, very clear and informative!

  • @billdavies6463
    @billdavies6463 2 роки тому +5

    Ironbridge was built from cast iron (see description above) - liquid metal poured into sand moulds to produce the complicated shape of each part. This is what the Darby family were famous for. Wrought iron was worked [hammered, rolled, etc.] (wrought is earlier English for worked; "what Man has wrought..."). A wright was a worker, a craftsman especially skilled in strong and complex constructions predominantly in wood and later including some metal, trades such as: millwright, shipwright, etc., and some became adopted as surnames: Wright, Arkwright, Cartwright. Different materials, different properties, different skills.

    • @kenh3344
      @kenh3344 8 місяців тому

      Very very good explanation, of who's who and what's what. 10/10. Top Mark's. 😊

  • @biliwili662
    @biliwili662 Рік тому +2

    Formidable. Qué hermoso . El mejor homenaje a la técnica y sus héroes .
    Gracias !!

  • @floridaboiwoody
    @floridaboiwoody Рік тому

    Great video! I have always been curious about Ironbridge so i enjoyed this video greatly.

  • @louiseevans5418
    @louiseevans5418 6 років тому +3

    I grew up around the ironbridge... love this place so much that once I actually did a flower arrangement of it

    • @georgemurphy7298
      @georgemurphy7298 2 роки тому

      @Louise Evans
      How lovely that is.... Nice to meet you here, how're you doing today?

  • @robertpierce363
    @robertpierce363 2 роки тому +1

    Brilliant.

  • @steelydann1
    @steelydann1 6 років тому +2

    What a great film of our heritage! . . Fred Dibnah would be proud of you if he were alive today.
    All the best .. . Martin.

  • @paulmorris6414
    @paulmorris6414 5 років тому +3

    Excellent film! I was very impressed with your knowledge and your investigature! With the involvement of enthusiasts such as yourself; the bridge is held up to the World as the wondrous piece of engineering that it is.

  • @neilwilliams2409
    @neilwilliams2409 6 років тому +3

    Excellent video well done. Ref Thomas Telford Longdon on Turn Aquaduct iron trough.

  • @JenniferUpton_2
    @JenniferUpton_2 7 років тому +2

    Thank you, most informative, in fact I have 'shared' to History Enthusiasts on the really ubiquitous Facebook.

  • @Happy_Snapper
    @Happy_Snapper 4 роки тому +1

    Brilliant

  • @afreeman1980
    @afreeman1980 3 роки тому +3

    I wonder just how long that concrete bed between the two abutments will last in keeping them apart. There is no way you can permanently stop the two banks coming together. When concrete fails under compression the failure is catastrophic.
    I worked on building the cooling towers, the fourth tower nearest to Ironbridge was built on piles which were inside a concentric tube filled with grease to allow for this slippage. The expected rate of movement was 2 inch every 100 years which was the maximum design life for that tower, it's now gone so all is safe.
    All this other piling activity we have seen around this area over the last few years will have a safe design life of some sort but I'm not prive to that information. It would be nice to know however. It is not possible to permanently stop nature from working on these two banks.

  • @lisawilliams3555
    @lisawilliams3555 5 років тому +4

    my great x11 grandad built this!

  • @HassanAli-ef6bc
    @HassanAli-ef6bc 6 років тому +2

    At school we had trip to there they are renovating it

  • @philgc11111
    @philgc11111 7 років тому +2

    very good, lots of info, slight disagreement about the face there are in fact two, one both side and both slightly different. I​ think there Pritchard and Darby.but that's just me.

  • @jaynegus4526
    @jaynegus4526 6 років тому +1

    The face profile appears in the same way as did the profile of "The Old Man of the Mountain" used to. It was in the state of New Hampshire USA - it collapsed some years ago.

  • @sunroad7228
    @sunroad7228 Рік тому

    "In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most.
    Time taken in stocking energy to build an energy system, adding to it the time taken in building the system will always be longer than the entire useful lifetime of the system.
    No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores.
    No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it.
    This universal truth applies to all systems.
    Energy, like time, flows from past to future" (2017).

  • @philgc11111
    @philgc11111 5 років тому +1

    look from both sides, there are two faces

  • @jayh9529
    @jayh9529 4 роки тому +1

    Because it looked good 😂

  • @danielrushing55
    @danielrushing55 5 років тому +1

    BOOOORRRRRIIIINNNNGG

  • @hrxy1
    @hrxy1 11 місяців тому +1

    excellent vid, thanks for no pounding drums or swirling whooshing, intense violins, bangs pops clicks pounding bongos awful annoying background noise intrusive background noise

    • @rogerkeen2569
      @rogerkeen2569 9 місяців тому

      Yes I visit this bridge in 1983 walked over it the only place German bombs could not reach at the time just love this country we are from NZ sir Roger great story