SALFORD MILL , MANCHESTER (1801)

• THIS MILL SURPASSES ALL OTHERS OF ITS TIME IN THE BOLDNESS OF

ITS DESIGN

• IT REPRESENTS THE FIRST EXPERIMENT IN THE USE OF IRON PILLARS

AND BEAMS FOR THE WHOLE INTERIOR FRAMEWORK OF A BUILDING

• IN THE BEAMS, THE FIRST OF THE I- SECTION TYPE WAS EXTENDED

ACROSS THE BUILDING FROM WALL TO WALL AT REGULAR INTERVALS

• IN THE CROSS SECTION OF THE WIDTH OF THE BUILDING IT SHOWS A

SPECIAL FOUNDATION PROVIDED FOR IRON COLUMNS OF THE
GROUND FLOOR AND THE JUNCTION BETWEEN THE CAST-IRON
COLUMNS AND THE BEAMS OF THE FIRST TWO FLOORS

• THE SECTION IN TE FORM OF AN I BROADER AT THE BASE THAN AT THE

TOP DID NOT COME INTO USE UNTIL AFTER 1854, WHEN HEAVIER
VERSIONS WITH GREATER SPANNING CAPACITY WERE SUCCESSFULLY
 BRUNEL’S SALTASH VIADUCT (1859)

• SALTASH OR THE ROYAL ALBERT BRIDGE IS A RAILWAY BRIDGE

WHICH SPANS THE RIVER TAMAR IN ENGLAND
• IT CONSISTS OF TWO 138.7m LENTICULAR IRON TRUSSES
30.5m ABOVE WATER WITH CONVENTONAL PLATE GIRDER
APPROACH SPANS
• ROLLED RIVETED PLATES WERE USED TO FORM HOLLOW
ELIPTICAL CHORDS , MEASURING 4.9 BY 3.7 METRES ACROSS
THEIR RESPECTIVE AXES
• THE STRUCTURE WAS THE THIRD IN THE SERIES OF THE THREE
LARGE WROUGHT IRON BRIDGES BUILT IN THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY BY I K BRUNEL