Item 2

Scope and Contents This is a print titled "Wheeling in Virginia." Published for Herrmann J Meyer, New York. Under the print on the matting is printed this description: The Wheeling Bridge 1849 - Ellet’s celebrated bridge over the Ohio River at Wheeling, W.Va. (then Virginia), was the first in the world to span over 1000ft (305m). A series of storms revealed a fundamental fault of the garland system: the subdivision of the cables into several strands so reduced their stiffness that when...