Monuments of the history of technology, such as the "iron railway bridges" presented here, have now established themselves in the public consciousness as legitimate siblings of the art monuments. The spectrum of technical monuments ranges from the smoky village smithy to the monstrous rolling mill, from the clattering mill wheel to the turbine in the hydroelectric power plant. from the nostalgic steam locomotive to the construction of a complete railway line.
With the example of the iron railway bridges, this workbook aims to contribute both to the theory of the monument
Discussion as well as the monument-practical collection and evaluation of an impressive, but apparently hitherto little noticed genre of Ingeiurbauwerken. The workbook gives everyone
In detail, no in-depth information about which bridges are technical monuments; However, it offers working materials, background information as well as a recording and evaluation scheme for the independent handling of this question, with which a comprehensible assessment of the technical-historical significance of a single or a group of bridges becomes possible.
In fact, the workbook is a "working" booklet that addresses first of all those who have devoted themselves to railroads; it turns, however, with its theoretical
Approach equally and generally to those who, beyond the subject of railways, deal with a wide variety of objects, their collection, their evaluation and, not least, their preservation.
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