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Titan Crane
Society: ASCEMain Category: Civil, MechanicalEra: 1900sDateCreated: 1907Queens QuayClydebankZip: G81 1BFCountry: ScotlandWebsite: http://www.asce.org/project/titan-crane/Creator: Hunter, Adam

The Titan is a 200-ton electrically driven hammerhead cantilever crane, the earliest survivor of this type. It is now all that remains of the once great John Brown Shipyard in Clydebank near Glasgow where many of the world's great ships were built. Designed and constructed by Sir William Arrol and Co. Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland, in 1907 the Titan set the standard for many more similar cranes to be erected worldwide. It has been restored and opened as a tourist attraction in 2007.

Image Credit: Courtesy Leslie Barrie (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Titan Crane

The Titan is a 200-ton electrically driven hammerhead cantilever crane, the earliest survivor of this type. It is now all that remains of the once great John Brown Shipyard in Clydebank near Glasgow where many of the world's great ships were built. Designed and constructed by Sir William Arrol…

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