 | 1813 - 670 pages
...that any body is blamed: we all did our best, according to what appeared; and all the experience 1 have gained is, not to attempt a bridge upon a gravel...from the whole bed of the river giving way under it; aa nothing appeared to settle till it gave way in a manner at once, which it a proof of its being firmly... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Civil engineering - 1861 - 540 pages
...best, according to what appeared ; and all the experience I have gained is, not to attempt to build a bridge upon a gravel bottom in a river subject to such violent rapidity." The fault committed seems to have been, that Smeaton was satisfied with setting his piers upon a crust... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1861 - 544 pages
...according to what appeared; and all the experience I have gained is, not to attempt to build abridge upon a gravel bottom in a river subject to such violent rapidity." The fault committed seems to have been, that Smeaton was satistied with setting his piers upon a crust... | |
 | John Smeaton (F.R.S., Civil Engineer.) - Chromolithography - 1876 - 134 pages
...best, according to what appeared ; and all the experience I have gained is,' not to attempt to build a bridge upon a gravel bottom in a river subject to such violent rapidity." Among his various engineering enterprises, Smeaton was employed in the improvement and construction... | |
 | Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, Harold John Brocklehurst - Technology & Engineering - 1925 - 332 pages
...best, according to what appeared; and all the experience I have gained is, not to attempt to build a bridge upon a gravel bottom in a river, subject to such violent rapidity."* We shall find that the real problem of proper foundation construction in rivers was not solved until... | |
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There is, however, one consolation that attends this great misfortune, and that is, that I cannot see that anybody is really to blame, or that anybody is blamed ; as we all did our best, according to what appeared ; and all the experience I have gained... 