Iron Bridge
General Information
| Structural Type: |
Arch bridge
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| Function / usage: |
Road bridge
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| Other name(s): | Coalbrookdale Bridge |
| Built: | 1777 - 1779 |
| Status: | in use |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Europe |
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| Crosses |
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| Coordinates: | 52° 37' 39.00" N 2° 29' 8.00" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 30.5 m | |
| total length | 60 m |
Quantities
| weight of iron | 378.5 t |
Materials
| arch |
cast iron
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Relevant Web Sites
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A Span for All Seasons: Iron Bridge
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archINFORM: Coalbrookdale Bridge (Ironbridge)
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Early birthplace: Ironbridge
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Great Buildings Online: Coalbrookdale Bridge
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Ironbridge Gorge Museum
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Meadow Colliery & Memorial Gardens
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PBS: Building Big - Iron Bridge
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Schätze der Welt: Ironbridge
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UNESCO: Partimoine mondial: Ironbridge gorge
Relevant Publications
- Secrets of the past, in "Bridge Design & Engineering", 1st Quarter 2002, n. 26 v. 8
- Great Buildings of the World: Bridges, Paul Hamlyn, New York (USA), 1969; pp. 52-64
- The Tower and the Bridge, Princeton University Press, Princeton (USA), ISBN 069102393X, 1983; pp. 30-30, 34, 38-39, 64-66
- Bridges, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York (USA), ISBN 002517455X, 1993; pp. 44-45
- L'architecture et les ingénieurs, Moniteur, Paris (France), ISBN 2281190994, 1997; pp. 90
- Brücken, Könemann, Cologne (Germany), ISBN 3829004095, 1998; pp. 34-35
- Bridges, Black Dog & Leventhal, New York (USA), ISBN 1884822754, 1997; pp. 34-35
- Les ponts, Könemann, Cologne (Germany), ISBN 3829004109; pp. 34-35
- Tierra sobre el agua, Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Madrid (Spain), ISBN 8438001483, 1999; pp. 197-198
- Bridges that Changed the World, Prestel, Munich (Germany), ISBN 3791327011, 2002; pp. 62-63
- Brücken, die die Welt verbinden, Prestel, Munich (Germany), ISBN 3791327003, 2002; pp. 62-63
- The Iron Bridge: its manufacture and construction, in "Industrial Archeaology Review", Fall 1992, n. 1 v. 15
- 200 Jahre Eisenkonstruktion - die Coalbrookdale-Bridge, in "Stahlbau", November 1979, n. 11 v. 48
- The Iron Bridge, Harcourt Brace & Company, New York (USA), ISBN 0151002592, 1998
- L'art de l'ingénieur, Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France), ISBN 2858509115, 1997; pp. 128
- Le Passage (1st edition), Everest Communication, Luxembourg (Luxembourg), ISBN 287996976X, 1999; pp. 170-171
- World's First Iron Bridge, in "Civil Engineering Magazine", December 1979, n. 12 v. 49
- Description of bridges of suspension, Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, vol. V, n. 10, 10/1821
- Buiding bridges, Beton-Verlag, Düsseldorf (Germany), ISBN 3764001763, 1984
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0000038 |
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| Created: | 28/10/1998 |
| Last Updated: | 05/03/2013 |
