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Holmes County Republican
Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio
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English papers detail plans for a tubular bridge across the English Channel from Dover to Cape Grinez, proposed by Mr. Body, featuring 190 towers, railways, and security batteries, estimated at up to £30 million, reimbursable in eight years.
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The magnificent project is being seriously entertained among engineers and men of science. There have been equally as wonderful things effected in our day. The English papers have published some of the details of the plans for uniting England and France by a gigantic tubular bridge across the channel between Dover and Cape Grinez, the French abutments being raised one hundred and fifty three feet higher than the English, to compensate for the difference of elevation of cliffs. The bridge would be supported by one-hundred and 90 towers, at a distance of five hundred feet apart, each having a light to guide vessels at night, and an alarm bell for warning in fogs. The greatest depth of the channel, on the line proposed, is one hundred and eighty-six feet. The bridge would have two or more railways, which, it is estimated could be traversed in twenty minutes; and it would be so built as to admit the light of day—being lighted at night by gas. In order to prevent all fear of invasion, the projector proposes that each end of the bridge shall be commanded by a strong battery. The towers, which would be one hundred feet in diameter and two hundred and sixty feet high, would rest on colossal bases, three hundred feet square at the bottom, one hundred and fifty feet square at the top, rising to a height of forty feet above the tower, formed of blocks of granite united by iron bars. The elevation of the tops of the towers would thus be three hundred feet above the surface of the water. Mr. Body estimates the utmost possible cost of the bridge at £30,000,000, but thinks it could be built for half that sum, and that the whole cost would be reimbursed to the company in eight years.
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Dover To Cape Grinez
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estimated cost up to £30,000,000, possibly half that sum, reimbursable in eight years
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Plans for a gigantic tubular bridge across the channel between Dover and Cape Grinez, with French abutments 153 feet higher than English to compensate for cliff elevation difference. Supported by 190 towers 500 feet apart, each with lights and alarm bells. Greatest depth 186 feet. Includes two or more railways traversable in twenty minutes, admits daylight, gas-lit at night. Each end commanded by a strong battery to prevent invasion. Towers 100 feet diameter, 260 feet high on bases 300 feet square at bottom, 150 feet at top, 40 feet high above water. Tops 300 feet above water surface.