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Technology and invention

Construction

Construction

These photographs show the construction of railway tracks.

What equipment is being used?

What type of equipment would you expect to see construction workers using today?

What are the advantages or disadvantages of these changes?

Three early bridges are shown in photographs.

Download and enlarge each photograph to see what they are made of.

Compare the construction and strength of each.

In this photograph a new bridge has been built alongside an old one.

What materials have been used in each bridge? How does the construction differ between the two?

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