When the Forth Bridge opened on 4 March 1890, it was the longest railway bridge in the world and the first large structure made of steel. Crossing the wide Firth of Forth east of Edinburgh in Scotland, it represents one of the greatest engineering triumphs of Victorian Britain. man's victory over the intractable topography of land and water. Not surprisingly, such a vigorous rebuff of the natural order was condemned at the time by those late Victorians who resisted the march of technology, and William Morris described the Bridge as the supremest specimen of all uglinessThe Eiffel Tower is a foolish piece of work, ugly, ill-proportioned and of no real use to anyone. | John Fowler Benjamin Baker Forth Bridge by Iain Boyd Whyte, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters