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    Early Suspension Bridges

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    History From the earliest of times we created bridges. Hunters needed to cross rivers and a fallen tree may come in handy.Early suspension bridge consisted of intertwined forest tendrils In Roman times they built bridges over ravines like Trajan in AD 105 that crosses the Tagus in Spain the bridge was made of granite with two massive arches 110 feet wide and 210 feet tall relative to the water.Every wedge block weighed 8 tons. Slaves organized these blocks through a system of pulleys powered by treadmills.In the 12th-16th century One of the greatest innovations of the middle ages is the ability to live on bridges. Arch bridges are a very prominent bridge. They use the arch as a main structure below the bridge depending on the sort of stress…

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    Tacoma Suspension Bridge

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    On November 7th, 1940, the Tacoma Bridge collapsed into the Tacoma Narrows straight in Washington State. The bridge connected the town of Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula, and was one of the first major suspension bridges in the western United States. Unlike other suspension bridges constructed around this time, the Tacoma Bridge failed to withstand wind speeds over 40 miles per hour, due to unequal stress on parts of the bridge. The construction of a suspension bridge must include geometric…

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    1940 Suspension Bridge

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    Narrows Bridge, the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge, was a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. It opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed into the Northwestern coast of Washington on November 7 of the same year. At the time of its construction, the bridge was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world in terms of main span length, behind the Golden Gate Bridge and…

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    Bridges are used around the world to get over a bay of water. There are several different designs that could be used when building bridges such as arc, beam , cable-stayed, truss and suspension bridges. The Golden Gate Bridge is a very well known example of a suspension bridge. It is located in San Francisco, California. Construction began in 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, and the bridge gave steady jobs to many people during this hard time. It was finished and opened in 1937,…

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    To answer the question am I an objectivist or subjectivist about art I will use this analogy to paint a picture. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody's around to hear it does it make a sound or does it not? If you look at the tree as an objective you will say it has its own properties without someone giving it to them. Something is objective if it is independent of our opinions on it it. A property is objective if particular objects can have that properties regardless of any subject’s…

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    The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge. It is located in San Francisco, California, and connects to Marin County, California. To San Francisco, it’s one of the most known symbols. The construction began January 25, 1933, ended April 19, 1837 and opened May 27, 1937 which lasted for one week. The whole project cost more than 35 million dollars. Many people argued that the bridge couldn’t be built across a 6700 ft. strait, which had swirling tides and currents with 372 ft of water deep, at…

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    Paper On Bowstring Bridge

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    For our design we have decided to do a bowstring bridge. A bowstring bridge normally are used to carry road and rail traffic. By bowstring bridges being able to use arches it makes it so that the weight of anything crossing the bridge is actually able to go straight down into the bridge instead of dispersing across the entire bridge. This makes sure that the bridge doesn’t have one spot taking on too much weight on the bridge. Bowstring bridges tend to be become stronger over time because the…

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    Essay On Brooklyn Bridge

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    Brooklyn Bridge and modernization of New York City Since Brooklyn Bridge was completed in the 19th century, it had been an iconic feature of the New York City. Being not only a bridge that connected Manhattan and Brooklyn for transportation convenience, Brooklyn Bridge had also become one of the greatest landmarks of New York City, even the U.S.A. To be honest, it is Brooklyn Bridge that contributes a lot to the development of the New York City and is the witness to the modernization of the New…

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    4 We reached Patna by late afternoon. We disembarked our bus at the Gandhi Bridge as it was known among the passengers. It is one of the longest bridges in the Asia built on the holy river, Ganges. It had made our journey pretty much comfortable. Earlier, it was a gigantic task to reach this city. You would have to use the ferries and boats to cross this mighty river. And it took many precious hours then. We put our bags and sacks of the grain on many men-drawn cycle rickshaws as it was the most…

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    Cable Stayed Bridge Essay

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    Sensation Russky Bridge, Vladivostok, Russia. What are Cable/Stayed Bridges? A cable/stayed bridge is a bridge that has two towers with cables supporting the bridge itself, as shown above. The towers are called pylon, the crossing area itself is called the roadway. The cables are obviously called cables. The supports underneath on the sides are called abutments, The foundations are located under the ground on the bottom of the pylons. Cable bridges are unique because no other bridge has…

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