Title: John Cooke Bourne and a lost photographic archive
Abstract:Abstract Mr. Vignoles made a few remarks in illustration of the great services which the new Art would be likely to render to engineers and others having to superintend important works which they coul...Abstract Mr. Vignoles made a few remarks in illustration of the great services which the new Art would be likely to render to engineers and others having to superintend important works which they could only occasionally visit, or having to make intelligible to foreign employers speaking a different language, with whom they could interchange ideas only imperfectly in conversation, the details of blocks and ropes, and complicated constructions. He instanced the pictures taken of the works now going on at Kieff for the suspension bridge he was erecting for the Emperor of Russia, over the Dneiper, on which photographic views had been taken weekly during the whole time of its construction, and especially the methods of raising the chains from the first tightening of the ropes to the final elevation of the whole to its proper position, which have been shown with the greatest accuracy and detail.Read More
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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