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Thomas Telford, the pioneering Scottish civil engineer, had first proposed a bridge across the Severn estuary in 1824. It fell to Michael Parsons to help fulfil that vision with his designs of the

Michael Parsons, brilliant civil engineer who revolutionised suspension bridge design – obituary His aerodynamic design for the first Severn crossing, with its streamlined bridge deck, influenced the design of bridges worldwide Michael Parsons Credit: family Michael Parsons, who has died aged 92, played a key role in designing and building four of the world’s greatest long-span suspension bridges – the Severn Bridge, the Forth Road Bridge, the first suspension bridge across the Bosphorus and the Humber Bridge. He first became interested in bridge construction as an engineering undergra...