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Happy #PancakeDay. Is anyone getting artistic with their pancakes this year? See this Golden Gate bridge pancake for inspiration tinyurl.com/o4s7e96 Why not have a go? video tinyurl.com/5bhx74h8 We'd love to see the results1315

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The Forth Bridge, opened 135 years ago #OnThisDay 1890. Engineers Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Fowler, contractors Sir Thomas Tancred, T. H. Falkiner Joseph Philips and Sir William Arrol.@UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015,@ASCE Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1985

Today is #WorldWildlifeDay Celebrating wild animals and plants and their vital role on the planet Rewilding European Landscapes is an interesting collection of case studies of projects re-introducing & protecting wildlife ice.soutron.net/Portal/Defau… #biodiversity #Nature #rewilding

Albion mills was destroyed by fire #OnThisDay 1791. It was the first steam powered commercial flour mill in UK, built in 1786 and powered by #Boulton and #Watt engines. The mill machinery was designed and installed by John Rennie rbt.org.uk/john-rennie/proje…

Well done @butler_rob 🏆 for correctly identifying Friday's #BridgeQuiz which was Manchester Road bascule bridge, Millwall, also know as Blue Bridge.

It's Friday, time for the weekly #BridgeQuiz. Who will be first to recognize this bridge?

Today is #ScottishArchivesDay, a good an excuse as any to look at these photographs of bridges on the Highland railway by Joseph Mitchell, 1865. ice.soutron.net/Portal/Defau…

Tees Newport bridge, Middlesbrough, opened #OnThisDay 1934. It was the first large vertical lift bridge in Britain. It was designed by David Anderson of Mott, Hay and Anderson and built by Dorman Long. It is grade II listed, see bit.ly/2TlK0dv tinyurl.com/yh6w32uh

Sir Robert Rawlinson, ICE Past President, was born #onthisday 1810. He was a member of the Sanitary Commission for the Crimea which improved the health of the British army by improving hygienic conditions in camp and hospitals.

Forensic engineering 2024: Finding answers to the What, Why, Who, and How of preventing failures. @ICE_engineers can now access the Proceedings of the ASCE Conference through our e-book platform ProQuest ice.soutron.net/Portal/Defau… #civilengineering #forensics #structural #disasters

Well done @DTsiganis for correctly identifying Friday's #BridgeQuiz which was the bridge in Cismigiu Gardens, Bucharest. Another 🏆for your collection. Watch out for another bridge this Friday at 2-30.

Amazing what you can find mixed in with some office admin. This was with a list of papers which were to be microfilmed in the 1960's. It's completely unrelated but fascinating to see the war Office / Air Ministry using our library during the war.

It's Friday, time for the weekly #BridgeQuiz and we have a difficult one this week, part of our #LibraryOnTour series. Where have we been? Who will be first to identify this bridge?

The first self-propelling steam locomotive by Richard Trevithick made its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks, Wales #OnThisDay 1804. See a replica in motion at the National Museum of Wales museum.wales/articles/1012/R……… Loco Image: Hugh Llewelyn flickr.com/photos/58433307@N…

Sir William Fairbairn was born #onthisday 1789. Designed the rectangular tube for Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge with Eaton Hodgkinson. Also Water Street Bridge on the Liverpool & Manchester railway.

Well done @DTsiganis 🏆 for being first to recognize this week's #BridgeQuiz which was Tempsford Bridge tinyurl.com/57bh3adt tinyurl.com/mr39dsh7 @Peter_McKeague receives 🥈. Watch out for another bridge on Friday at 2-30.

Work began on sinking the Rotherhithe shaft for Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel #OnThisDay 1825. Text is from `Sinking the shaft' mss book.

The Angel of the North statue was installed #OnThisDay 1998 attracting tourists and businesses to the Gateshead area. Find out more about the civil engineering challenges involved at tinyurl.com/47dap6y5 Image -flickr.com/photos/saw2th/556…