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Books in my signature series use photos of bridges, in homage to my
wife's profession. This bridge is The Iron Bridge,
the first bridge in the world to be made of iron, back in 1781. It's a
symbol of the industrial revolution, which began near where I grew up
in the Black
Country. The photo is my own, which I took earlier this year. The
design of the bridge looks somewhat unusual, nobody had built an iron
bridge before, so they built it like they would build a wooden
bridge. It took Thomas Telford to
really use iron effectively in bridges.
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