Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, North Wales
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Vogel, Robert M.
label: Collection Creator
content: Shayt, David H.
label: Collection Creator
content: Worthington, Bill
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content: Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection
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content: Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection / Series 1: Bridges
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content: 1 Lithograph (overall: 19 in x 13 in; 48.26 cm x 33.02 cm)
container: label: Container
content: Map-folder 14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Lithographs
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content: Color/aquatint lithograph of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, North Wales. Crossed River Dee near Llangollen. Designed by Thos Telford; Ellesmere Canal. Construction started 25 July 1795. Aquaduct length: 988 feet plus 10 feet, 6 inches of iron work at each end, 19 arches if 45 foot span. Canal trough 11 feet, 8 inches wide. Piers 10 feet wide by 21 feet deep at base; 7 feet by 12 feet at top. Piers 116 feet high. Additional dimensional information on print.

Associated Museum accesison number 319630.