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Is this late enough in the 19th century for you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Bridge_disaster



So your convincing evidence for the claim that "plenty of poorly designed steel bridges from the 19th century have collapsed" is a single example of a bridge that collapsed because it was designed "less extensive and robust than [..] previous similar designs"?

Or is your claim a mere circular argument, since we can deduce that a steel bridge was poorly designed if it has since collapsed?



“Plenty”?




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