2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 16/12/2024This is a famous photograph of Benjamin Baker, where he uses real people to illustrate the principle of cantilever construction—a principle applied to the Firth of Forth Bridge. 77116
Bruce Henderson @brucehenderson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Which of course is a World Heritage Site because of this engineering 020
Kathy Hopper @anfieldkathy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024I grew up not too far from the Forth bridges. As a young child I didn't realise that the trains went along the middle (so to speak). I thought they went up, along, down, along, up, along, down, along, up...... 110
Ady whitwell @adywhitwell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024As an engineer I found this interesting but it's not quite as mind bending when you consider how a spiked wheel works. Thing about it, little pieces of wire holding the weight of a human being 120
Jacquie @shroommuse.bsky.social · 16/12/2024The Forth Bridge!!!! Not the Forth Rail Bridge, not the Firth of Forth Bridge, The Forth Bridge! She is a thing of supreme Victorian beauty, a magnificent piece of engineering, and I miss her possibly more than any other thing from home. 120
