Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Is big necessarily better?: The "discovery" of highly significant small bridges
- In
- 17th Engineering Heritage Conference: Canberra 100 - Building the Capital, Building the Nation
- Imprint
- Engineers Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 2013, pp. 71-76
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781922107121
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.880634043154263
- Abstract
In the history of heritage recognition in Australia, large bridges have, with large dams, led the pack when lists of works of engineering heritage significance have been prepared. There have only been rare exceptions, such as the first small composite steel and concrete bridge near Hobart, where any recognition has been given to a small bridge. The authors were engaged to work on conservation of a small bridge in the Hunter Valley of NSW which had hitherto received little heritage recognition. The work uncovered a very early steel girder NSW road bridge built at a time of government strictures on importing iron and steel, and found a fascinating story about the politics and engineering of bridges in the late 19th century.
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- 17th Engineering Heritage Conference: Canberra 100 - Building the Capital, Building the Nation (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2013), 189 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.9781922107121. Details