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Excerpt from Des Ponts en Fil de Fer Le premier dont il soit fait mention en Europe sur ce principe, i st celui dont parle Hutchin son (c) il consiste en deux chaînes de fer sur lesquelles on a établi un petit plancher de deux pieds de large pour le passage des piétons: on croit que sa construction remonte aux environs de 1741. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.