CHAPTER VII. Iron and other Bridges

Use of iron in bridge-building

Design of a Lyons architect

First iron bridge erected at Coalbrookdale

Tom paine's iron bridge

Wear iron bridge, Sunderland

Telford's iron bridge at Buildwas

His iron lock-gates and turn-bridges

Projects a one-arched bridge of iron over the Thames

Bewdley stone bridge

Tougueland Bridge

Extension of Telford's engineering buisness

Literary friendships

Thomas Campbell

Miscellaneous reading