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Skew arch

Index Skew arch

A skew arch (also known as an oblique arch) is a method of construction that enables an arch bridge to span an obstacle at some angle other than a right angle. [1]

153 relations: A roads in Zone 3 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, A roads in Zone 4 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, A4010 road, Abutment, Accommodation bridge, Alexander Adie, Allegheny Portage Railroad, Ancient Rome, Angle, Arch, Arch bridge, Ashton Canal, Bankruptcy, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Benjamin Outram, Boxmoor, Brick, Bristol and Exeter Railway, British people, Caledonian Railway, Centring, Chamfer, Charles Fox (civil and railway engineer), Chiltern Main Line, Circular segment, Civil engineer, Cockfield, County Durham, Colorado Street Bridge (Saint Paul, Minnesota), County Durham, Course (architecture), Cowley, Devon, Croft-on-Tees, Darlington, Deansgate railway station, Denbigh Hall railway station, Development (differential geometry), Differential geometry, Edward Sang, Empirical evidence, Exeter, Extrusion, Falsework, Floriana Lines, Fluid dynamics, Gentleman, Geograph Britain and Ireland, George Stephenson, George W. Buck, Giovanni Barbara, Great Central Railway, ..., Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway, Great Western Railway, Harpenden, Helicoid, Helix, Hemel Hempstead railway station, Hereford Road Skew Bridge, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal, Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Institution of Civil Engineers, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, James Brindley, John Cooke Bourne, Kielder Viaduct, Lancaster Canal, Ledbury, Ledbury and Gloucester Railway, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Liverpool–Manchester lines, Logarithm, London, London and Birmingham Railway, London and Greenwich Railway, London Bridge – Greenwich Railway Viaduct, Lyne Viaduct, Malta, Maltese people, Manchester, Manchester and Birmingham Railway, Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway, Manchester–Preston line, Mathematician, Midland and South Western Junction Railway, Midland Railway, Moulsford Railway Bridge, Multiview projection, Naas, Navigable aqueduct, Neidpath Viaduct, North British Railway, Northumberland, Orthogonality, Paper War of 1752–1753, Paraboloid, Parallelogram, Peter Nicholson (architect), Philadelphia, Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Schuylkill River Viaduct, Pietà, Malta, Pontefract, Projection (mathematics), Puente de los Franceses (Madrid), Quasistatic loading, Quoin, Rail transport, Reading Company, Rectangle, Republic of Ireland, Rewe, Devon, Rifling, Right angle, River Gaunless, River Ribble, Robert Stephenson, Rochdale Canal, Royal Institution, Royal Society of Arts, Rustication (architecture), S bridge, Schuylkill River, Semicircle, Seventh Street Improvement Arches, Shear stress, Skew Arch Bridge (Reading, Pennsylvania), Soffit, Southdown Road Skew Bridge, Spandrel, Square thread form, St Pancras railway station, St. Paul and Duluth Railroad, Stanford Viaduct, Stockton and Darlington Railway, Stonemasonry, Store Street Aqueduct, Swin Bridge, Swindon, Tangent, Thirty-third Street Bridge in Philadelphia, Thomas Grainger, Thomas Storey, Trigonometry, Trinity College, Cambridge, Viaduct, Voussoir, Wash (visual arts), Watling Street, West Coast Main Line, William Chapman (engineer), William Froude, William Henry Barlow, William Whewell, Yalesville Underpass. Expand index (103 more) »

A roads in Zone 3 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

List of A roads in zone 3 in Great Britain starting west of the A3 and south of the A4 (roads beginning with 3).

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A roads in Zone 4 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

List of A roads in zone 4 in Great Britain starting north of the A4 and south/west of the A5 (roads beginning with 4).

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A4010 road

The A4010 is an important primary north-south road in Buckinghamshire, Southern England.

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Abutment

In engineering, abutment refers to the substructure at the ends of a bridge span or dam whereon the structure's superstructure rests or contacts.

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Accommodation bridge

An accommodation bridge or occupation bridge in the United Kingdom preserves a pre-existing private road, path or right of access when a major transport route is built across it.

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Alexander Adie

Alexander James Adie FRSE MWS (1775, Edinburgh – 1859, Edinburgh) was a Scottish maker of medical instruments, optician and meteorologist.

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Allegheny Portage Railroad

The Allegheny Portage Railroad was the first railroad constructed through the Allegheny Mountains in central Pennsylvania, United States; it operated from 1834 to 1854 as the first transportation infrastructure through the gaps of the Allegheny that connected the midwest to the eastern seaboard across the barrier range of the Allegheny Front.

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Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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Angle

In plane geometry, an angle is the figure formed by two rays, called the sides of the angle, sharing a common endpoint, called the vertex of the angle.

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Arch

An arch is a vertical curved structure that spans an elevated space and may or may not support the weight above it, or in case of a horizontal arch like an arch dam, the hydrostatic pressure against it.

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Arch bridge

An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch.

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Ashton Canal

The Ashton Canal is a canal in Greater Manchester in North West England.

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Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legal status of a person or other entity that cannot repay debts to creditors.

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Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (May 1, 1764 – September 3, 1820) was a British neoclassical architect who emigrated to the United States.

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Benjamin Outram

Benjamin Outram (1 April 1764 – 22 May 1805) was an English civil engineer, surveyor and industrialist.

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Boxmoor

Boxmoor is part of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire.

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Brick

A brick is building material used to make walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.

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Bristol and Exeter Railway

The Bristol & Exeter Railway (B&ER) was an English railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter.

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British people

The British people, or the Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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Caledonian Railway

The Caledonian Railway (CR) was a major Scottish railway company.

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Centring

Centring, centre, centering"Centering 2, Centring 2" def.

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Chamfer

A chamfer is a transitional edge between two faces of an object.

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Charles Fox (civil and railway engineer)

Sir Charles Fox (11 March 1810 in Derby, United Kingdom – 11 June 1874) was an English civil engineer and contractor.

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Chiltern Main Line

The Chiltern Main Line is an inter-urban, regional and commuter railway, part of the British railway system.

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Circular segment

In geometry, a circular segment (symbol: ⌓) is a region of a circle which is "cut off" from the rest of the circle by a secant or a chord.

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Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.

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Cockfield, County Durham

Cockfield is a village on the edge of Teesdale, County Durham, England.

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Colorado Street Bridge (Saint Paul, Minnesota)

The Colorado Street Bridge also known as Bridge No.

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County Durham

County Durham (locally) is a county in North East England.

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Course (architecture)

A course is a layer of the same unit running horizontally in a wall.

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Cowley, Devon

Cowley is a hamlet in the parish of Upton Pyne in Devon, England.

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Croft-on-Tees

Croft-on-Tees is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England.

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Darlington

Darlington is a large market town in County Durham, in North East England.

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Deansgate railway station

Deansgate, also known as Manchester Deansgate, is a railway station in Manchester city centre, England, approximately west of Manchester Piccadilly in the Castlefield area, at the junction of Deansgate and Whitworth Street West.

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Denbigh Hall railway station

Denbigh Hall railway station was a temporary terminus station on the London and Birmingham Railway in the Denbigh area of what is now Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Development (differential geometry)

In classical differential geometry, development refers to the simple idea of rolling one smooth surface over another in Euclidean space.

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Differential geometry

Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that uses the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multilinear algebra to study problems in geometry.

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Edward Sang

Prof Edward Sang FRSE FRSSA LLD (30 January 1805 – 23 December 1890) was a Scottish mathematician and civil engineer, best known for having computed large tables of logarithms, with the help of two of his daughters.

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Empirical evidence

Empirical evidence, also known as sensory experience, is the information received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and documentation of patterns and behavior through experimentation.

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Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city in Devon, England, with a population of 129,800 (mid-2016 EST).

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Extrusion

Extrusion is a process used to create objects of a fixed cross-sectional profile.

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Falsework

Falsework consists of temporary structures used in construction to support spanning or arched structures in order to hold the component in place until its construction is sufficiently advanced to support itself.

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Floriana Lines

The Floriana Lines (Is-Swar tal-Furjana) are a line of fortifications in Floriana, Malta, which surround the fortifications of Valletta and form the capital city's outer defences.

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Fluid dynamics

In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids - liquids and gases.

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Gentleman

In modern parlance, a gentleman (from gentle + man, translating the Old French gentilz hom) is any man of good, courteous conduct.

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Geograph Britain and Ireland

Geograph Britain and Ireland is a web-based project, initiated in March 2005, to create a freely accessible archive of geographically located photographs of Great Britain and Ireland.

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George Stephenson

George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer.

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George W. Buck

George Watson Buck (1789–1854) was the engineer of the Montgomeryshire Canal in the early 19th century, and was responsible for the unique lock paddle design.

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Giovanni Barbara

Giovanni Barbara (1642–1728) was a Maltese architect and military engineer.

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Great Central Railway

The Great Central Railway (GCR) in England came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897 in anticipation of the opening in 1899 of its London Extension (see Great Central Main Line).

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Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway

The Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway was a railway built and operated jointly by the Great Western Railway (GWR) and Great Central Railway (GCR).

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.

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Harpenden

Harpenden is a town in the St Albans City district in the county of Hertfordshire, England.

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Helicoid

The helicoid, after the plane and the catenoid, is the third minimal surface to be known.

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Helix

A helix, plural helixes or helices, is a type of smooth space curve, i.e. a curve in three-dimensional space.

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Hemel Hempstead railway station

Hemel Hempstead railway station is on the West Coast Main Line, on the western edge of the town of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England.

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Hereford Road Skew Bridge

Hereford Road Skew Bridge is a disused railway bridge in Ledbury, Herefordshire.

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Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal

The Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal (sometimes known as the Hereford and Gloucester Canal) is a canal in the west of England, which ran from Hereford to Gloucester, where it linked to the River Severn.

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Huddersfield Narrow Canal

The Huddersfield Narrow Canal is an inland waterway in northern England.

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Institution of Civil Engineers

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom.

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".

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James Brindley

James Brindley (1716 – 27 September 1772) was an English engineer.

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John Cooke Bourne

John Cooke Bourne (September 1, 1814 – February 1896) was a British artist, engraver and photographer,John Hannavy (2013) Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography..

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Kielder Viaduct

Kielder Viaduct consists of seven semi-circular masonry skew arches and was built in 1862 by the North British Railway to carry the Border Counties Line across marshy land, which following flooding to create Kielder Water, became the place where Deadwater Burn joins Bakethin Reservoir.

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Lancaster Canal

The Lancaster Canal is a canal in North West England, originally planned to run from Westhoughton in Lancashire to Kendal in south Cumbria (historically in Westmorland).

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Ledbury

Ledbury is a Herefordshire market town, lying east of Hereford, and west of the Malvern Hills.

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Ledbury and Gloucester Railway

The Ledbury and Gloucester Railway (also known as the Daffodil Line), was a railway line in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, England, running between Ledbury and Gloucester.

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Leeds and Liverpool Canal

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was a railway opened on 15 September 1830 between the Lancashire towns of Liverpool and Manchester in England.

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Liverpool–Manchester lines

There were four direct railway routes between Liverpool and Manchester in the North West of England, however only two remain, the two centre routes of the four.

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Logarithm

In mathematics, the logarithm is the inverse function to exponentiation.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London and Birmingham Railway

The London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, existing from 1833 to 1846, when it became part of the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR).

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London and Greenwich Railway

The London and Greenwich Railway (L&GR) was opened in London between 1836 and 1838.

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London Bridge – Greenwich Railway Viaduct

The London Bridge – Greenwich Railway Viaduct consists of a series of nineteen brick railway viaducts linked by road bridges between London Bridge railway station and Deptford Creek, which together make a single structure in length.

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Lyne Viaduct

Lyne Viaduct is a viaduct at Lyne in the Scottish Borders of Scotland.

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Malta

Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta), is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Maltese people

The Maltese (Maltin) are an ethnic group indigenous to Malta, and identified with the Maltese language.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Manchester and Birmingham Railway

The Manchester and Birmingham Railway was built between Manchester and Crewe and opened in stages from 1840.

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Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway

The Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJ&AR) was a suburban railway which operated a 13.7 km (8½ mile) route between Altrincham in Cheshire and London Road Station (now Piccadilly) in Manchester.

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Manchester–Preston line

The Manchester–Preston line runs from the city of Manchester to Preston, Lancashire.

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Mathematician

A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in his or her work, typically to solve mathematical problems.

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Midland and South Western Junction Railway

The Midland and South Western Junction Railway (M&SWJR) was an independent railway built to form a north-south link between the Midland Railway and the London and South Western Railway in England, allowing the Midland and other companies' trains to reach the port of Southampton.

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Midland Railway

The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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Moulsford Railway Bridge

Moulsford Railway Bridge, known locally as "Four Arches" bridge is a pair of parallel bridges located a little to the north of Moulsford and South Stoke in Oxfordshire, UK.

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Multiview projection

In technical drawing and computer graphics, a multiview projection is a technique of illustration by which a standardized series of orthographic two-dimensional pictures is constructed to represent the form of a three-dimensional object.

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Naas

Naas (Nás na Ríogh, or An Nás) is the county town of County Kildare in Ireland.

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Navigable aqueduct

Navigable aqueducts (sometimes called water bridges) are bridge structures that carry navigable waterway canals over other rivers, valleys, railways or roads.

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Neidpath Viaduct

Neidpath Viaduct, occasionally known as the Queen's Bridge, consists of eight stone skew arches and was built to carry the Symington to Peebles branch line of the Caledonian Railway over the River Tweed to the south-west of Neidpath Castle.

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North British Railway

The North British Railway was a British railway company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Northumberland

Northumberland (abbreviated Northd) is a county in North East England.

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Orthogonality

In mathematics, orthogonality is the generalization of the notion of perpendicularity to the linear algebra of bilinear forms.

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Paper War of 1752–1753

In 1752, Henry Fielding started a "paper war", a long term dispute with constant publication of pamphlets attacking other writers, between the various authors on London's Grub Street.

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Paraboloid

In geometry, a paraboloid is a quadric surface that has (exactly) one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry.

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Parallelogram

In Euclidean geometry, a parallelogram is a simple (non-self-intersecting) quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides.

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Peter Nicholson (architect)

Peter Nicholson (20 July 1765 – 18 June 1844) was a Scottish architect, mathematician and engineer.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Schuylkill River Viaduct

The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Schuylkill River Viaduct, also called the Reading Railroad Bridge and the Falls Rail Bridge, is a stone arch bridge that carries rail traffic over the Schuylkill River at Falls of Schuylkill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Pietà, Malta

Pietà (Tal-Pietà) is a small town Central Region of Malta, located on the outskirts of the capital city Valletta.

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Pontefract

Pontefract is a historic market town in West Yorkshire, England, near the A1 (or Great North Road) and the M62 motorway.

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Projection (mathematics)

In mathematics, a projection is a mapping of a set (or other mathematical structure) into a subset (or sub-structure), which is equal to its square for mapping composition (or, in other words, which is idempotent).

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Puente de los Franceses (Madrid)

The Puente de los Franceses (Bridge of the Frenchmen) railway viaduct is located in Madrid, Spain.

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Quasistatic loading

In solid mechanics, quasistatic loading refers to loading where inertial effects are negligible.

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Quoin

Quoins are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Reading Company

The Reading Company was a company that was involved in the railroad industry in southeast Pennsylvania and neighboring states from 1924 until 1976.

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Rectangle

In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a quadrilateral with four right angles.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Rewe, Devon

Rewe is a village and civil parish in the county of Devon in England.

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Rifling

In firearms, rifling is the helical groove pattern that is machined into the internal (bore) surface of a gun's barrel, for the purpose of exerting torque and thus imparting a spin to a projectile around its longitudinal axis during shooting.

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Right angle

In geometry and trigonometry, a right angle is an angle of exactly 90° (degrees), corresponding to a quarter turn.

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River Gaunless

The River Gaunless is a river of County Durham in England.

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River Ribble

The River Ribble runs through North Yorkshire and Lancashire in Northern England.

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Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson FRS (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an early railway and civil engineer.

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Rochdale Canal

The Rochdale Canal is a navigable broad canal in Northern England, between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge, part of the connected system of the canals of Great Britain.

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Royal Institution

The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often abbreviated as the Royal Institution or Ri) is an organisation devoted to scientific education and research, based in London.

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Royal Society of Arts

The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) is a London-based, British organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges.

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Rustication (architecture)

Two different styles of rustication in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence; smooth-faced above and rough-faced below. In classical architecture rustication is a range of masonry techniques giving visible surfaces a finish that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared-block masonry surfaces called ashlar.

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S bridge

An S bridge is a bridge whose alignment follows a reverse curve, shaped roughly like a shallow letter S in plan, used in early 19th-century road construction in the United States.

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Schuylkill River

The Schuylkill River is an important river running northwest to southeast in eastern Pennsylvania, which was improved by navigations into the Schuylkill Canal.

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Semicircle

In mathematics (and more specifically geometry), a semicircle is a one-dimensional locus of points that forms half of a circle.

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Seventh Street Improvement Arches

The Seventh Street Improvement Arches are a double-arched masonry highway bridge that formerly spanned the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad tracks in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Shear stress

A shear stress, often denoted by (Greek: tau), is the component of stress coplanar with a material cross section.

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Skew Arch Bridge (Reading, Pennsylvania)

The Skew Arch Bridge in Reading, Pennsylvania, also known as the Askew Bridge and nicknamed the Soap and Whiskey Bridge, is a historical skew arch bridge completed in 1857 carrying two tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad (P&R) at an angle over Sixth Street in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

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Soffit

A soffit is an exterior or interior architectural feature, generally the underside of any construction element.

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Southdown Road Skew Bridge

Southdown Road Skew Bridge is a ribbed skew arch railway bridge, which carries the Midland Main Line across Southdown Road in Harpenden, Hertfordshire.

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Spandrel

A spandrel, less often spandril or splaundrel, is the space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure.

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Square thread form

The square thread form is a common screw thread form, used in high load applications such as leadscrews and jackscrews.

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St Pancras railway station

St Pancras railway station, also known as London St Pancras and officially since 2007 as St Pancras International, is a central London railway terminus located on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden.

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St. Paul and Duluth Railroad

The St.

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Stanford Viaduct

Stanford Viaduct is a railway viaduct in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire.

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Stockton and Darlington Railway

The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863.

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Stonemasonry

The craft of stonemasonry (or stonecraft) involves creating buildings, structures, and sculpture using stone from the earth, and is one of the oldest trades in human history.

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Store Street Aqueduct

The Store Street Aqueduct in central Manchester, England, was built in 1798 by Benjamin Outram on the Ashton Canal.

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Swin Bridge

Swin Bridge (also 'Cockfield Bridge' or 'Haggerleases Bridge') is the local name for a skew arch bridge in County Durham.

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Swindon

Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, South West England, between Bristol, to the west, and Reading, the same distance east.

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Tangent

In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point.

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Thirty-third Street Bridge in Philadelphia

The Thirty-third Street Bridge in Philadelphia carries Thirty-third Street (U.S. Route 13) over the former course of Master Street in the Brewerytown section of North Philadelphia, near Fairmount Park.

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Thomas Grainger

Thomas Grainger FRSE (12 November 1794 – 25 July 1852) was a Scottish civil engineer and surveyor.

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Thomas Storey

Thomas Storey (1871 – 5 January 1953) was an Australian politician.

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Trigonometry

Trigonometry (from Greek trigōnon, "triangle" and metron, "measure") is a branch of mathematics that studies relationships involving lengths and angles of triangles.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

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Viaduct

A viaduct is a bridge composed of several small spans for crossing a valley, dry or wetland, or forming an overpass or flyover.

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Voussoir

A voussoir is a wedge-shaped element, typically a stone, which is used in building an arch or vault.

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Wash (visual arts)

A wash is a term for a visual arts technique resulting in a semi-transparent layer of color.

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Watling Street

Watling Street is a route in England and Wales that began as an ancient trackway first used by the Britons, mainly between the areas of modern Canterbury and using a natural ford near Westminster.

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West Coast Main Line

The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important railway corridors in the United Kingdom, connecting the major cities of London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow.

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William Chapman (engineer)

William Chapman (1749 – 1832) was an English engineer.

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William Froude

William Froude (28 November 1810 in Devon – 4 May 1879 in Simonstown, South Africa) was an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect.

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William Henry Barlow

William Henry Barlow FRS FRSE FICE MIMechE (10 May 1812 – 12 November 1902) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway engineering projects.

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William Whewell

William Whewell (24 May 1794 – 6 March 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science.

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Yalesville Underpass

The Yalesville Underpass is a 30-degree skew arch bridge carrying the railroad over Route 150 and Route 71 in Wallingford, Connecticut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew_arch

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