Welsh Achievements - in science, technology and engineering (PDF

• The pioneering design by Richard Rogers for the Inmos
factory at newport in 1982 exposes the services and
structural members on the outside leaving the inner
space free of detail.
• The canal age’s greatest monument is Thomas Telford’s
Pont-Cysyllte Aqueduct which crosses the Dee Valley
without using locks in a cast-iron trough 300 metres long
on stone pillars 40 metres above the river in 1805.
Europe’s first
multi-storey reinforced
concrete building was
opened in 1897 in
Swansea to house
flour mills and storage.
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• The Severn Tunnel was the
longest railway tunnel in the
UK for over 100 years, being
completed under the Severn
Estuary in 1885. At 7.2km
long it represented ‘the
ultimate in the engineer’s
fight against adversity’.
• Robert Stephenson was to
develop, in conjunction with
others, the concept of the
box-girder to carry his railway
across the Menai Straits. The
first wrought-iron tubular
bridge to this design was
built at Conwy in 1848 and
still stands today.