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Record Pictures: Photographs from the Archives of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Record Pictures Photographs from the Archives of the Institution of Civil Engineers Author:Michael Collins The first fifty years of photography's history coincided with the 'Golden Age' of civil engineering. This was the era of the railway boom, with it's unprecedented volume of bridge construction, when vast programmes of municipal infrastructures were initiated in the wake of rapid Western industrialisation. Never before had the industry of civil e... more »ngineering made such an impact on the environment. Record Pictures: Photographs from the Archive of the Institution of Civil Engineers represents the photographic jewels of arguably the finest collection in Britain.« less