The Pont du Gard was built shortly before the Christian era to allow the aqueduct of Nîmes (which is almost 50 km long) to cross the Gard river. The Roman architects and hydraulic engineers who ...

Le pont ferroviaire, qui enjambe l’estuaire du fleuve Forth en Ecosse avait, quand il fut inaugur é en 1890, les travées les plus longue s du monde (541m). Le pont demeure l ’un des plus grands ponts ...

See images of items on temporary display to celebrate the du Pont family’s 225th anniversary of arriving in America at the Hagley Museum and Library.

This article was originally published with the title “ Fell's Railway over Mont Cenis ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 20 No. 24 (June 1869), p. 371 doi:10.1038 ...