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Five 19th-century engineering feats.
5: The Bridge. Civil engineer Dr Mark Raiss tells the story of the construction of the Forth Railway Bridge at the end of the last century. The designers had to be sure that the bridge would not blow down as the Tay bridge had done in 1879. They came up with a design which has since been used for bridges all over the world.
Producer Mark Savage

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