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World Service,04 Mar 1995,48 mins

Diverse Aspects of Building Bridges

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Christopher Cook explores the history of bridge-building, from the rounded Roman stone arch to the modern-day suspension bridge. With James Davis from the American Society of Civil Engineers, and David Brown, author of Bridges: Three Thousand Years of Defying Nature

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