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	Thomas Bouch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the engineer, Thomas Bouch was blamed for its collapse, however (his assistant Charles Meik merely left an impression that he "was aptly named").
		Bouch's design for the Forth Bridge had been accepted and the foundation stone laid, but the project was cancelled due to the Tay Bridge Disaster.
		Thomas Bouch retired to Moffat, his health deteriorated, and he died while the public inquiry into the disaster was still underway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Bouch (398 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Thomas Bouch
		Sir Thomas Bouch (February 25, 1822 - 1890) was a railway engineer in Victorian Britain.
		As the engineer, Thomas Bouch was blamed for its collapse, however.
		Thomas Bouch retired to Moffat[?], his health deteriorated, and he died while the public enquiry into the disaster was still underway.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/th/Thomas_Bouch (226 words)

	Thomas Bouch Biography
		Sir Thomas Bouch (25 February 1822 - 30 October 1880) was a railway engineer in Victorian Britain.
		As the engineer, Thomas Bouch was blamed for its collapse, however (his assistant Charles Meik merely left an impression that he "was aptly named").
		Bouch's design for the Forth Rail Bridge had been accepted and the foundation stone laid, but the project was cancelled due to the Tay Bridge Disaster.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Bouch_Thomas.html (243 words)

	BBC Forensic Engineering - Solve the Riddle - Background
		Thomas Bouch was born on 25th February 1822 in Thursby, Cumberland.
		Thomas quickly found the position unsuitable and returned to Thursby where he started a job as an assistant to George Larmer, a railway surveyor.
		As a result, Bouch was forced to redesign his bridge in order to lighten the load on the foundations and the brick piers were replaced with cast iron columns.
	www.open2.net /forensic_engineering/riddle/riddle_02_05.htm (498 words)

	The Northern Viaduct Trust working to restore redundant railway viaducts in the North of England
		However, Bouch's magnum opus was the Tay Bridge, built to carry a single line of railway for nearly two miles on 85 spans, high above the waters of the Firth of Tay between Dundee and Wormit, and opened to traffic on 22nd September 1877.
		Bouch was honoured, first, when Queen Victoria crossed the structure on her way to Balmoral in June 1879, and second, by the bestowal of a knighthood.
		However, serious faults were exposed in the design and construction of the bridge when it was blown down in a severe storm on the night of 28th December 1879, with the loss of over 70 lives of the passengers and crew of a train which was passing over at the time.
	www.nvt.org.uk /bouch.htm (416 words)

	Images Of Cumbria - Famous Sons and Daughters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Thomas, was born at Langdale, in Orton parish, Westmorland, in 1607, and and was sent from Appleby school to Queen's College, Oxford, of which he was afterwards provost.
		Bouch gave much of his time and study to the construction of light and elegant viaducts, and the many bridges which he designed remain as monuments to his success.
		Howard, Thomas, of Corby Castle, is the author of a Poem entitled The Landscape or the Banks of the Eden, and an elegy on the death of his eldest son.
	www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk /cumbria/worthies.html (12749 words)

	Engineers \| Sir Thomas Bouch
		Thomas Bouch died during the public inquest into the failure of the high girders of the Tay Bridge at his country retreat in Moffat, and is buried at the Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.
		History has been unkind to Thomas Bouch, not surprisingly; he was engineer and contractor for the ill-fated first Tay Bridge which opened in 1878 and for which Bouch was knighted after Queen Victoria had travelled over it.
		There were other problems with the bridge most of which had arisen from cost-cutting (the North British Railway which paid for the bridge was over-stretching itself) such as poor smelting (this was done at Wormit) for the iron work and re-use of girder sections which had been dropped on the sea-bed during construction.
	www.railscot.co.uk /engineers/Thomas_Bouch/body.htm (491 words)

	4th - Uncyclopedia
		However, this isolation was ultimately rather boring, and Sir Thomas Bouch was commissioned to build a bridge to connect Edinburgh with the mainland.
		Bouch’s initial plans called for the bridge to be built entirely of McVitie’s chocolate digestives, which proved a rather poor choice as his first attempt sank into the swampy tea-filled moat.
		Sir Benjamin Baker submitted plans for a revolutionary cantilever design, which he claimed would be much more stable than what he called Bouch’s "preposterous biscuit heap", but Queen Victoria vetoed the designs, pointing out that "cantilever" was a rather negative-sounding term for such a risky design, and couldn’t he change it to "can-ilever".
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/4th (498 words)

	Amazon.com: Thomas Bouch: The Builder of the Tay Bridge: Books: John Rapley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Bouch became famous when he developed the idea of roll-on/roll-off ferries for the Edinburgh and Northern Railway on the river Forth, but it was his Tay bridge and the proposed Forth Railway Bridge that brought him the fame he craved.
		This is the first serious biography of Thomas Bouch, the builder of the first Tay bridge, which collapsed when an express train was crossing during a storm.
		Bouch started his career in the railway industry in the north of England, contributing some fine viaducts (such as that at Belah, but now sadly demolished).
	www.amazon.com /Thomas-Bouch-Builder-Tay-Bridge/dp/0752436953 (986 words)

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	www.reayw.freeserve.co.uk /alltran.htm (13023 words)

	Tom Martin's Tay Bridge Disaster pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Bouch was responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of the bridge.
		At the time of the collapse Bouch was working on the design of the proposed Forth Bridge.
		Sir Thomas Bouch was held chiefly to blame for the collapse in not making adequate allowance for wind loading.
	taybridgedisaster.co.uk (922 words)

	The Failure of the Tay Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In order to reduce the number of footings for the central spans, Bouch reduced the 14 large spans to 13 thereby increasing their lengths from 200 feet to 245 feet for 11 girders and to 227 feet for 2 girders.
		Bouch and the contractor decided, against great resistance by the responsible designer, to reduce the number of iron columns from 8 to 6 at every pier.
		Bouch wasn’t certain about valid load assumptions and neither were the engineers in charge.
	www.pitt.edu /~mpk10/interesting_engineering_event.html (3208 words)

	William Bouch
		Bouch is noted for designing the first British locomotives with a true 4-4-0 ('American') design in 1860.
		Bouch is also known for designing many of the Stockton and Darlington's "long boiler" locomotives.
		Thomas Bouch is infamous (rightly or wrongly) as the designer of the original Tay Bridge.
	www.lner.info /eng/bouch.shtml (419 words)

	Bouch Family Crest
		Bouch is a name that evolved during the medieval era in the French region of Champagne.
		In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
		In the Bouch coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/bouch-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224 (498 words)

	Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Failed design triggers horrific Tay Bridge terror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Bouch had constructed several bridges previously and had a reputation for building structures that were completed on time and within budget.
		Blame was mostly apportioned to Sir Thomas Bouch (he had been knighted after the bridge's completion) for failing to design a sufficiently strong structure.
		Whether from stress induced by the disaster - in which Bouch's own son-in-law had been one of the dead - or otherwise, the health of the famous engineer started to fail, and on 30 October 1880 he died and was buried in Edinburgh's Dean Cemetery.
	heritage.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=245702006 (1217 words)

	Tay Bridge disaster 1879 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Designed by Sir Thomas Bouch, the Tay Railway Bridge was opened in 1878.
		Bouch had not designed his structure with the estuary winds considered in his calculations, nor had the contractor been supervised to prevent his use of badly manufactured material.
		Bouch, who was held entirely responsible, could not take the strain either and died shortly after the inquiry.
	www.scotclans.com /clans/1879.htm (197 words)

	Taybridge Disaster 1879
		Thomas Bouch died shortly after the event, contemporary accounts referring to him as a “broken man”.
		The Local History Centre of the Central Library, Dundee houses a unique collection of books, photographs and newscuttings relating to construction of the first and second bridges, and to the disaster itself.
		John Thomas, The Tay Bridge Disaster: New Light on the 1879 Tragedy.
	www.dundeecity.gov.uk /centlib/taybridge/taybridge.htm (458 words)

	Infamous Bridge Disasters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Thomas Bouch was the engineer responsible for the design, construction, and maintenance of the Tay Bridge.
		He designed most of his bridges with “lattice girders supported on slender cast iron columns braced with wrought iron struts and ties.”(5) The Tay Bridge, a bridge over the Firth of Tay in Scotland, was close to two miles in length.
		It was also determined that the lugs holding the bracing were snapping off from being “too tight.” Sir Thomas Bouch was held fully responsible for the disaster and, consquently, was removed from his Forth Bridge design.
	filebox.vt.edu /users/aschaeff/tay/tay.html (419 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Thomas Bouch: The Builder of the Tay Bridge: Books: John Rapley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Bouch had been born in Cumberland in 1822 and, with the death of his father in 1838, he joined a firm of engineers in Manchester.
		The engineer of the bridge was Thomas Bouch, a well respected man who was knighted by Queen Victoria only a few months before the bridge fell in a storm.
		It resulted in several train derailments in the 1850's, and may have shown Bouch's preference for low cost solutions, an attitude that would come to haunt him after the fall of the Tay bridge (where poor materials and designs were the main reason for its fall).
	www.amazon.co.uk /Thomas-Bouch-Builder-Tay-Bridge/dp/0752436953 (885 words)

	What was the Tay Bridge Rail Disaster?
		It had been built by Thomas Bouch, who was knighted not long after the completion of the bridge.
		Among the fatalities of the Tay Bridge disaster was Thomas Bouch's son in law.
		Bouch was held responsible for the disaster, but doubts still exist as to the real reason for the collapse of the bridge.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-was-the-tay-bridge-rail-disaster.htm (490 words)

	The Illustrated London News - Viaducts
		Entire books (by John Thomas and John Prebble) and even a novel (Hatter's Castle by A. Cronin) have been devoted to the tragedy of the first Tay Bridge and its designer, Thomas Bouch.
		Opened on 31 May 1878, when Bouch was knighted after Queen Victoria had crossed the structure, the bridge was in use for only 18 months.
		On the night of the collapse, which took the lives of 75 people, an exceptionally severe storm blew down the firth; the reading on the Beaufort scale was 10 to 11, taken by officers aboard HMS Mars which was anchored near the bridge.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/ind_rev/iln/viaduct.htm (2787 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The inquiry held Sir Thomas Bouch responsible for the disaster as it stated "there is no one who is more deserving of pity than the civil engineer who designed and constructed the Tay Bridge and who, as the law now stands, is held responsible for its defects."(Swinfen, pg 82).
		Thomas Bouch was removed from his involvement in designing the Forth bridge and became ill and died only ten months after the disaster.
		Born in the village of Thursby in Cumberland in 1822
	www.glendale-h.schools.nsw.edu.au /faculty_pages/ind_arts_web/bridgeweb/Tay_bridge_page.htm (1088 words)

	The Tay Bridge Disaster
		The Tay Rail Bridge was completed in February 1878, designed by Thomas Bouch (see photograph).
		The Tay bridge was two miles long, had 85 spans and was the longest bridge in the world.
		In consequence, the design of the bridge was transferred to Benjamin Baker and Sir John Fowler.
	www.technologystudent.com /struct1/taybrd1.htm (322 words)

	Brief Biographies of Mechanical Engineers
		According to Marshall William Bouch, elder brother of Thomas Bouch (engineer of the first Tay Bridge), was born in 1813 (according to Pearce at Thursby, but registered in Whitehaven) and died in Weymouth on 19 January 1876.
		Thomas Cochrane was born at Annfield in Lanarkshire on 14 December 1775.
		Thomas Kirtley was born in Tanfield in 1810 and died from a brain tumour in Brighton on 16 November 1847 where he was locomotive superintendent (Marshall).
	www.steamindex.com /people/engrs.htm (13286 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Tay Bridge toppled by a big blow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		At the time, the finger of blame was pointed at the bridge’s creator, Thomas Bouch, and an official inquiry accused him of cutting corners and poor design.
		But a new TV documentary says he simply did not reckon on the ferocity of the Scottish weather, and one extremely strong gust of wind proved enough to topple his bridge.
		Thomas Bouch, who had been given a knighthood for his work on the bridge, blamed derailment.
	news.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=883602004 (652 words)

	Bouch, Thomas :: Bridge Builders : RSS Feeds : Gourt
		All of the high girders section fell during the accident, and analysis of the archives has shown that the design of cast iron columns with integral lugs holding the tie bars was a critical mistake.
		Following on from the Tay Rail Bridge disaster was the introduction of the phrase into the English language of the term "you have made a bouch of that" which was further anglicised into the term "botch" leading to the saying for a job of poor construction being called a botch job.
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	Civil engineers, Architects, etc
		Following the Tay Bridge disaster in December1879 (see T. Bouch) Baker designed the great cantilever bridge to span the Firth of Forth which was begun in 1883 and opened on 4th March1890.
		The sole remaining reminders of Bouch's endeavours are the stumps of the old Tay Bridge and some of the girders incorporated into the neer structure.
		He was also (with Thomas Grainger, who had taken Miller into partnership) engineer of the Ballochmyle Viaduct in Ayrshire (see Biddle).
	www.steamindex.com /people/civils.htm (7635 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Tay Bridge Disaster, December 1879
		Sir Thomas Bouch was held chiefly to blame for the collapse as his design had not made allowance for the fierce winds which frequently blew down the River Tay.
		At the time of the Tay Bridge collapse, Sir Thomas Bouch was working on the design of the proposed Forth Bridge for the Edinburgh and Northern Railway.
		Many of Bouch's other bridges were inspected and extra buttressing added to their construction to strengthen them against high winds.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A5648808 (1372 words)

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