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The Forth and Clyde Canal
Thomas J. Dowds
其他書名
A History
出版Dundurn, 2003-01-01
主題History / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / ScotlandHistory / Europe / IrelandHistory / Europe / RenaissanceHistory / Modern / GeneralHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralHistory / Modern / 21st CenturySocial Science / ArchaeologyTechnology & Engineering / HydraulicsTransportation / GeneralTransportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / General
ISBN18623223259781862322325
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Z8joVgKdx8MC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Forth and Clyde Canal, completed in 1790, was by far the largest engineering project that had ever been seen in Scotland. It allowed coal and machinery to travel East and grain to travel West. Passengers could travel between Glasgow and Edinburgh in greater comfort than by stagecoach, and it produced employment along its entire route. But it required capital on a scale previously unknown; it required the collaboration of Edinburgh, Glasgow and London; it required new technology; and it encountered its full measure of constructional problems. It took 22 years to build. eclipsed by the railways. Although the passenger trade was lost, and much of the freight also, the canal struggled on for another century before the rise of road transport resulted in its decline. Now, after a long period of neglect, and sporting the spectacular Falkirk Wheel, it enjoys new life as an imaginative leisure resource.