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It was the city's second bridge across the Thames following the medieval era London Bridge, built from 1739 and opening in 1750 to a design by the architect Charles Labelye. It was built from the centre outwards and by the time Scott sketched it is had four arches under construction. [ 3 ]
Horace King (sometimes Horace Godwin) (September 8, 1807 – May 28, 1885) was an African-American architect, engineer, and bridge builder. [1] King is considered the most respected bridge builder of the 19th century Deep South, constructing dozens of bridges in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. [2]
Puente Romano, Mérida, the world's longest (still in use) surviving Roman bridge. The ancient Romans were the first civilization to build large, permanent bridges. [1] Early Roman bridges used techniques introduced by Etruscan immigrants, but the Romans improved those skills, developing and enhancing methods such as arches and keystones.
Roman building ingenuity extended over bridges, aqueducts, and covered amphitheatres. Their sewerage and water-supply works were remarkable and some systems are still in operation today. The only aspect of Roman construction for which very little evidence survives is the form of timber roof structures, none of which seem to have survived intact.
That same year, he established the Howe Bridge Works to build bridges using his design. [4] 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.
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A bridge can be categorized by what it is designed to carry, such as trains, pedestrian or road traffic (road bridge), a pipeline (Pipe bridge) or waterway for water transport or barge traffic. An aqueduct is a bridge that carries water, resembling a viaduct, which is a bridge that connects points of equal height.
The early years saw early bridge technology limited very much to the 18th-century European technology of masonry arches and cast iron, the latter still in its infancy and not produced to any great extent in New South Wales. NSW at the time of early settlement had an abundance of convict labour and had a need for rapid construction. In a country ...