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Amazing: Long-lost plans of Chain Bridge in Budapest have been found
A sensational discovery has been announced by the Hungarian Technical and Transportation Museum: the institution has identified the long-lost 185-year-old construction drawings of the Chain Bridge.
These documents offer a unique insight into the building of Hungary’s first permanent bridge across the Danube and shed new light on the work of the Scottish engineer Adam Clark.
Lost drawings of Chain Bridge have been found
The 25 hand-drawn sheets were created during the bridge’s construction, which began in 1839, and had been missing for more than a century and a half. The plans reveal not only the structural details of the bridge but also the process of its construction — including the timetable of the piling works and depictions of the machines and equipment used on site, writes Hungarian Technical and Transportation Museum in a Facebook post.
One particularly fascinating drawing shows that Clark originally designed four chains on each side of the bridge, although the final version was built with only two.
The rare technical drawings were first unveiled aboard the Kossuth Museum Ship, where Domonkos Schneller, Director General of the museum, highlighted that these documents could serve as invaluable sources for the scientific reconstruction of the Chain Bridge’s construction history.
Not just Budapest’s but the point from which all distances are measured nationwide. The discovery of these documents is a sensation. One has to wonder where they’ve been all this time.
Quintals. QUINTALS. Oh, FFS . . .
“No, we don’t want what we write to be understood. The only information that we want to convey is this — WE BE SMART ! ! ! “