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{"title":"John Smeaton and the Calder Navigation, with the Transcription of John Smeaton’s Journal 1760-1763 Detailing the Day-to-Day Work on the Navigation","authors":"Victoria Owens","doi":"10.1080/17581206.2021.2020076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2021.2020076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236677,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128609927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Minuteman: A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare","authors":"J. Aylen","doi":"10.1080/17581206.2021.2020079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2021.2020079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236677,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122820205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Brunel’s Swivel Bridge, Bristol: History and Heritage","authors":"David Greenfield, Eugen Kobchikov","doi":"10.1080/17581206.2022.2152770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2022.2152770","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the background, inception, design and construction of Brunel’s tubular wrought-iron bridges, with a view to setting the Swivel Bridge in historical and technical context (Figure 1).","PeriodicalId":236677,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology","volume":"30 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114030442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Sewer is the Best Medicine. Through Plague, Wars, Famine and Flood. Sir Robert Rawlinson and the Nineteenth Century Public Health Revolution","authors":"Nina Baker","doi":"10.1080/17581206.2022.2130853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2022.2130853","url":null,"abstract":"Most readers of this journal will be familiar with the name and works of Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1819-1891) in the field of public health civil engineering. The subject of this book, Sir Robert Rawlinson (1810-1898), almost Bazalgette’s exact contemporary, worked in the same field but, whereas we remember Bazalgette for his bridges and famous London sewage system, Rawlinson’s extensive (and intensive) career included waste disposal schemes the length and breadth of the UK (Chapters 1–6), as well as in the Crimean theatre of war (Chapters 7–9), a fatal dam disaster (Chapters 12–15) and unexpectedly ghastly river pollution (Chapters 16–17) resulting from the various sewage schemes. Rawlinson’s family were from a very modest, upper working class background, such that his father (a building contractor) could only afford the most basic of schooling for his son. However, Rawlinson made the most of an early job as a masonry measurer in the INT. J. FOR THE HISTORY OF ENG. & TECH.,, Vol. 92 No. 1, January 2022, 74–91","PeriodicalId":236677,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123376286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Radar in Scotland 1938-46","authors":"N. Baker","doi":"10.1080/17581206.2022.2132189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2022.2132189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236677,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129229036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Isambard K Brunel’s Swivel Bridge of 1849: an overview","authors":"A. Smith","doi":"10.1080/17581206.2023.2170157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2023.2170157","url":null,"abstract":"It is difficult now to appreciate the extraordinary pace of invention in civil engineering in the 1840s and 50’s: the years of the ‘Railway Mania’. The extraordinary achievements of those years were both led by and drove a relatively small group of engineers and contractors who worked at what now seems astonishing speed, risking both fortune and health. To picture invention as mothered solely by necessity surely misses what Rowland Mainstone termed ‘the springs of structural invention’. Its parentage is much richer, arising from the accumulation of and reflection on both tacit and formal knowledge, which in turn fuels imagination and intuition, before determination and ambition achieve something new. Those remarkable decades bear this out forcefully. In 1848, in the midst of work on much larger bridges, Brunel was commissioned to design and construct a bridge to span his new south entrance lock to Bristol’s Floating Harbour. It had to be mounted so that it could be moved out of the way of shipping using the lock and the double-cantilever Swivel Bridge was the outcome. It served that purpose until the mid-1960s, surviving being moved, shortened and damaged. It was then left neglected and rusting away at the side of the present entrance lock into the Harbour. Until the bicentenary of Brunel’s birth in 2006, it was among the least known of Brunel’s bridges and was certainly entirely un-researched. Now its history, construction and condition, mechanical and structural, have been investigated and significant mechanical repairs carried out as discussed in this issue. Members of the History Study Group of the Institution of Structural Engineers visited the bridge in 2015 and heard about the survey, conservation and repair work carried out since 2006. David Greenfield, the late Brian Murless and the late Graham Laucht showed some of their historical research including, in Laucht’s case, information about numerous later Brunel ‘balloon topped’ bridges for which he had found either archival or photographic evidence. I thought then that this work deserved a wider audience and in 2019 the Study Group and the Institution organised a conference in Bristol focussed on the bridge. The three papers published here were presented at this conference. David Greenfield has thoroughly researched the development of the design and construction of Brunel’s wrought iron tubular bridges which led to the 300’ span Chepstow railway bridge of 1849-52 and the 455’ spans of the Saltash railway bridge of 1854-9. With an overall length of 122’ and weighing around 70","PeriodicalId":236677,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122657475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Eiserne Eremitage - Bauen mit Eisen im Russland der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts (Iron Hermitage: Iron Construction in Russia in the first Half of the 19th Century)","authors":"B. Addis","doi":"10.1080/17581206.2022.2151396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2022.2151396","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236677,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130949563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Einfach leicht: Vladimir G. Šuchov 1853-1939 Bauten aus Netzen und Gittern (Simply light: Vladimir G. Shukhov 1853-1939 Structures made with Nets and Gridshells)","authors":"Bill Addis","doi":"10.1080/17581206.2022.2150112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2022.2150112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":236677,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125962283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Brunel’s Swivel Bridge, Bristol - preservation practicalities","authors":"G. Wallis","doi":"10.1080/17581206.2022.2150111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2022.2150111","url":null,"abstract":"Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed a lock and 70 Tonne swing bridge of novel design in 1849, sited at the lowest vehicular crossing point on the River Avon in Bristol, at Cumberland Basin, the western entrance to the Floating Harbour. In the 1870’s the bridge was shortened and relocated over a new entrance lock constructed where it served for well over 100 years. It still survives, lying derelict underneath the Plimsoll swinging road-bridge that superseded it in 1965.","PeriodicalId":236677,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132678392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Brunel’s Swivel Bridge, Bristol, inspection, survey and renovation","authors":"R. A. Watkins","doi":"10.1080/17581206.2022.2130852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2022.2130852","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the inspection of a derelict riveted wrought iron swivel bridge, designed by Brunel in 1849, by a team of volunteers that is hoping now to restore the bridge to working order. This inspection, dimensional survey and limited ground investigation supplemented some original drawings, recorded the existing condition and produced ‘as found’ drawings and a condition report of the bridge. Wrought iron ties were found to have been used to ‘prestress’ the main edge beams to reduce cantilever deflections. The paper also describes some of challenges for the restoration of this bridge including: repairs to the ironwork; possible local strengthening; providing enhanced corrosion resistance for the iron within the closed sections; and, ensuring that the structure works as designed.","PeriodicalId":236677,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129166447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}