Two jailed after bridge built by blind man collapses!
 

:eh: :omg:

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddly...16970120070611

Re: Two jailed after bridge built by blind man collapses!
 

Arch stupidity... :erm:

Re: Two jailed after bridge built by blind man collapses!
 

Dilli......what have you been up to?! :D

Re: Two jailed after bridge built by blind man collapses!
 

lol Cobby!

Re: Two jailed after bridge built by blind man collapses!
 

It's like something out of the Key Stone Cops!

;)

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Things get done by money exchanging hands, so I guess the blind chap paid the right people not to ask sensible questions such as, "How can you build something you cannot see to a plan you cannot read?"

:D

Re: Two jailed after bridge built by blind man collapses!
 

In the absence of Theodoric, can I be the first to mention John Metcalf?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Me...il_engineer%29

Re: Two jailed after bridge built by blind man collapses!
 

Interesting. He built roads though. Bridges are a bit more complex :erm:

Re: Two jailed after bridge built by blind man collapses!
 

How did his roads get over rivers? :)

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No idea - the article doesn't say. It just mentions that he floated roads over bogs and understood rain was a bad thing. All I can say is that I've not heard of any standing bridge being built by him :shrug:

Disabled people are really just enabled in a different way. But there are limitations, no matter how determined and talented you are.

Re: Two jailed after bridge built by blind man collapses!
 

I'm with Cobby, it was a bridge too farcical lol!

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Sur le punt d'Avignon eh Tinky? ;)

Re: Two jailed after bridge built by blind man collapses!
 

We need Nugget. Someone shine the NuggSign at the clouds....

My contribution: Next time I get Troubled Waters, I'll just put up with them.

Re: Two jailed after bridge built by blind man collapses!
 

I suspect (and it's my degree subject, so I'm not totally flying blind here ;) ) that civil engineers then were expected to do the lot - the word 'civil' merely indicated that they weren't 'military' engineers, who were definitely expected to be able to put up bridges and build roads. The idea of specialisation into structures, geotechnics, hydraulics etc. came much later, when the French idea of theoretical engineering rather than good old British rule-of-thumb came in and people actually had to do some hard-core maths.

The word 'theoretician' was an insult in those days (tantamount to calling someone a 'Frenchman'), which explains why a man who unable to explain his calculations could be a successful engineer.

Re: Two jailed after bridge built by blind man collapses!
 

Well at least all we have to contend with here is one legged Romanian roofers :D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...ixnewstop.html