An amateur's contribution to the design of Telford's Menai Suspension Bridge: a commentary on Gilbert (1826) ‘On the mathematical theory of suspension bridges’

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2014.0346MaRDI QIDQ2955759zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors C. R. Calladine

Publication date 13 January 2017

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0346

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Bibliographic studies (01A90) History of mechanics of deformable solids (74-03) Strings (74K05)

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