162: Building Tower Bridge

<p>How Tower Bridge Was Built: The Untold Story of London&#39;s Most Famous Bridge</p><p>Discover the remarkable history behind Tower Bridge, one of London&#39;s most iconic landmarks. Learn how political battles, engineering innovation, and Victorian ambition transformed a transport crisis into one of the greatest bridge-building achievements of the nineteenth century.</p><p><br></p><p>00:00 Building Tower Bridge</p><p>01:00 Why London Needed a New Thames Crossing</p><p>03:00 The Engineering Challenge</p><p>05:00 Early Designs and Political Battles</p><p>06:00 Choosing the Bascule Design</p><p>06:30 Horace Jones and John Wolfe Barry</p><p>08:00 The Tower Bridge Act of 1885</p><p>10:00 Building the Foundations Beneath the Thames</p><p>12:00 The Six Divers of Tower Bridge</p><p>14:00 Constructing the Steel Superstructure</p><p>16:00 The Revolutionary Hydraulic System</p><p>18:00 Victorian Engineering and Safety Standards</p><p>20:00 Costs, Delays and Human Sacrifice</p><p>22:00 Legal Disputes During Construction</p><p>24:45 Why Victorian Critics Hated Tower Bridge</p><p>27:30 The Grand Opening of 1894</p><p>29:00 Tower Bridge&#39;s Lasting Legacy</p>