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A wooden bridge was built at sometime between the 8th and 11th centuries at the same river ford as the present day Krämerbrücke. [1] The bridge was first mentioned in 1117 after its destruction by one of many fires. [5] The first written evidence of a "pons rerum venalium", i.e. "a market bridge", on the site dates back to 1156. [11]
A timber bridge or wooden bridge is a bridge that uses timber or wood as its principal structural material. One of the first forms of bridge, those of timber have been used since ancient times. Wooden bridges could be a deck-only structure or a deck with a roof. Wooden bridges were often a single span, but could be of multiple spans.
Cable-stayed bridge and Suspension bridge: 1,408 m (4,619 ft) Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, [2] Istanbul: Cantilever bridge: 549 m (Quebec bridge) 1042.6 m (Forth Bridge) Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge: Clapper bridge: Covered bridge: Girder bridge: Continuous span girder bridge Integral bridge: Extradosed bridge: 1,920 m Arrah–Chhapra ...
Many of the houses were later merged, into 91. In the seventeenth century, almost all had four or five storeys. All the houses were shops, and the bridge was one of the City of London's four or five main shopping streets. The three major buildings on the bridge were the chapel, the drawbridge tower and the stone gate.
The first iron chain suspension bridge in the Western world was the Jacob's Creek Bridge (1801) in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, designed by inventor James Finley. [1] The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is another example of a suspension structure. Much like the suspended building structure, towers hold the weight and ...
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The first Howe truss ever built was a single-lane, 75-foot (23 m) long bridge in Connecticut carrying a road. [1] The second was a railroad bridge over the Connecticut River in Springfield, Massachusetts. This bridge, which drew extensive praise and attention, [3] had seven spans and was 180 feet (55 m) in length. [1] Both bridges were erected ...
At around 600 miles wide and up to 6,000 meters (nearly four miles) deep, the Drake is objectively a vast body of water. To us, that is. To the planet as a whole, less so.