162: Building Tower Bridge
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162: Building Tower Bridge
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How Tower Bridge Was Built: The Untold Story of London's Most Famous Bridge
Discover the remarkable history behind Tower Bridge, one of London's most iconic landmarks. Learn how political battles, engineering innovation, and Victorian ambition transformed a transport crisis into one of the greatest bridge-building achievements of the nineteenth century.
00:00 Building Tower Bridge
01:00 Why London Needed a New Thames Crossing
03:00 The Engineering Challenge
05:00 Early Designs and Political Battles
06:00 Choosing the Bascule Design
06:30 Horace Jones and John Wolfe Barry
08:00 The Tower Bridge Act of 1885
10:00 Building the Foundations Beneath the Thames
12:00 The Six Divers of Tower Bridge
14:00 Constructing the Steel Superstructure
16:00 The Revolutionary Hydraulic System
18:00 Victorian Engineering and Safety Standards
20:00 Costs, Delays and Human Sacrifice
22:00 Legal Disputes During Construction
24:45 Why Victorian Critics Hated Tower Bridge
27:30 The Grand Opening of 1894
29:00 Tower Bridge's Lasting Legacy