Originally Posted by
Canuck of NI
... lest we Scots and Scots descendants become too vain about building the modern world, we should also remember the great Tay Bridge Disaster, which event would have been an unredeemed and unmitigated disaster indeed but for the epic poem of the same name by William McGonnigal....
(Wasn't that designed by an Englishman, though?)
I hope to see the Falkirk Wheel one of these days; but I haven't been in Scotland since it was built. Probably my favorite bit of engineering that I've actually seen is the Forth Rail Bridge. Photo by Greg Barbier from Wikimedia Commons:
Last edited by fluter; 7th March 11 at 01:14 PM.
Reason: photo credit
Ken Sallenger - apprentice kiltmaker, journeyman curmudgeon,
gainfully unemployed systems programmer
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