The Iron Bridge opens over the Severn
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Cast at Coalbrookdale under Abraham Darby III and opened on New Year's Day 1781, the first cast-iron bridge in the world used carpentry joints — dovetails, mortices and wedges — because nobody yet knew how to detail iron. It was a demonstration rather than an economy, and it worked: within a generation iron was a structural material for mills, aqueducts and rails.
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