An age when it was taken for granted that, England could accomplish anything. And did so.

 

1. you yanks need to read up on lots of other things we done to, is it zulu time all ready ?

   Posted by bulldog       03/13/2010  at  06:48 PM  



2. I seem to remember neither went to a lot of school, Brunel’s bridge over the Tamar still carries the main line railway into cornwall, there is a lot of Victorian engineering still in use, there is a brick tunnel running from Surrey under the river to Essex, it was (IS?) used to carry cleanish water to the city. Liverpool http://www.williamsontunnels.com.

   Posted by Chris Edwards       03/13/2010  at  09:06 PM  



3. he built ships to

   Posted by bulldog       03/14/2010  at  11:46 AM  



4. Oh Mr bulldog, I think you will find that most folk who visit here admire all great enterprises and find it quite fascinating when we see what was accomplished so early in the industrial revolution by brits and merkins and even the occasional “other” nations of the time.
   Consider the panama canal project. It was started by a rather dim frenchman who had no clue you could not stop a continental mountain range from pushing on the dirt you tried to move to get to sea level on both sides.He thought it was just as easy as the Suez,Just keep on digging.But when the US Corp of engineers got handed the task they realized the idiosy of that and finished it with sound engineering unknown just a few decades prior.
   Its all good and fun to see even in this age of micro this and nano that.

   Posted by Rich K       03/14/2010  at  11:24 PM  



5. Brunel was a hero and genius of the age. I’m gonna have to check AMZN and find a bio on him.

   Posted by peiper       03/15/2010  at  09:09 AM  



6. Peiper, if you get a chance take a train across Brunel’s bridge over the tamar, until it was built the lowest crossing of that river was 20 miles upstream and built in the 1300ds, that still takes motor traffic. Brunel’s ship the great britain is in Bristol http://www.ssgreatbritain.org/, also worth a visit.
   On a related note have you watched the new Sherlock Holmes movie? there is a scene depicting the part finished tower bridge, I found it good.
   That sort of thing is what I miss now, Canada has little old engineering, some Victorian hydro electric stuff at Niagra and some neat lift locks, lots of trees but they are mostly newer than my last house in Cornwall.
   Chris

   Posted by Chris Edwards       03/15/2010  at  06:37 PM  



7. Chris ... CORNWALL!  Gee. What made you leave aside from Labour? It’s been years since I visited Cornwall. There are spectacular places in this country. I liked Devon also. I had a friend who owned a pub in Bath and I liked it there too. I alwys thought (after seeing Cornwall) that if I could live there I would never leave. A case I think of not just beauty but the grass just has to be better in a place like that. I hope Prescott hasn’t had the place paved over before he left office.

   Posted by peiper       03/17/2010  at  04:45 AM  



8. Chris, I tried the link and keep getting this.

   The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

   Is there another link?

   Posted by peiper       03/17/2010  at  04:47 AM  

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