And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, August 15, 2025
Georg Koppmann’s photograph of a bridge over the Norderelbe, Hamburg, 1888
‘Founded’ in less than two years using labor from a town of 300,00 half of whom were children and women, constructed without any power tools, all materials were transported using horses and donkeys over dirt roads, even in the dead of winter, shipped in from who knows where because there were no foundries. And frankly, we couldn’t make anything remotely like this today, no matter the money thrown at it. I don’t believe these pictures anymore. Your pal Scott.
‘Founded’ in less than two years using labor from a town of 300,00 half of whom were children and women, constructed without any power tools, all materials were transported using horses and donkeys over dirt roads, even in the dead of winter, shipped in from who knows where because there were no foundries.
ReplyDeleteAnd frankly, we couldn’t make anything remotely like this today, no matter the money thrown at it.
I don’t believe these pictures anymore.
Your pal
Scott.
#Grand Tartaria.
https://www.whitemad.pl/en/neue-elbbrucke-in-hamburg-how-a-miracle-of-19th-century-engineering-disappeared/
DeleteDefinitely Victorian era. No question.
ReplyDeleteMy goodness. Before the automobile was even invented.
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