View from the South Shore, Looking South. The Graphic 30 (30 August 1884): 225. Source: Hathi Trust online version of a copy of the periodical in the New York Public Library. Click on image to enlarge it.
As Jacqueline Banerjee explains in her photo-essay on the bridge, it was designed by Sir John Fowler (1817-1898) and Benjamin Baker (1840-1907), who was knighted afterwards, with the assistance of Allen Stewart, and other engineers.
Related Material on the Firth of Forth Bridge
- Machinery for Drilling the Steel Tubes of which the Bridge is to be Constructed
- View from the North Shore, Looking South
- A Caisson on the Launchway, at Low Water
- Launch of a Caisson
- Modern Photographs of the Forth Rail Bridge
- Victorian Bridges (homepage)
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