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The Fink Truss Bridge was patented by Albert Fink in 1854. Albert Fink designed his truss bridges for several American railroads especially the Baltimore and Ohio and the Louisville and Nashville . The 1865 Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company lists 29 Fink Truss bridges out of a total of ...
Albert Fink (October 27, 1827 – April 3, 1897) was a German-born civil engineer who worked in the United States. He is best known for his railroad bridge designs, which helped revolutionize the use of iron for American railroad bridge construction. He devised the Fink truss and many truss bridges, especially the Fink-Type Truss Bridge.
It was pioneering in its use of a series of Fink trusses to create a large interior space with no columns or walls, and is today the oldest surviving example of such a building. It was also one of the first buildings in Halifax to be lit by electricity .
The Fink truss was designed by Albert Fink of Germany in 1854. This type of bridge was popular with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad . The Appomattox High Bridge on the Norfolk and Western Railway included 21 Fink deck truss spans from 1869 until their replacement in 1886.
GNIS feature ID: 876902 [1] Hamden is an ... The 1858 Fink-Type Truss Bridge (Hamden Bridge), listed on the National Register of Historic Places, ... Code of Conduct ...
At the time of its nomination, it was one of the earliest surviving iron truss bridges in the United States. [4] The Fink truss bridge was patented by Albert Fink in 1854, and the Hunterdon county bridge, built 3 years later, was a nearly perfect example of the patented design. [4] It collapsed as a result of an automobile collision in 1978.
N&W replaced the High Bridge's Fink truss spans in 1886 with minimal interruption of rail traffic, one span at a time, first suspending a new Pratt deck truss from traveling wooden falsework and then removing the old truss. [4] The bridge was completely rebuilt in 1914. In 1982, N&W became part of the current Norfolk Southern Railway system.
The bridge takes the form of an inverted Fink truss, with six masts rising above the deck at 25.5 m (84 ft) centres, varying in height from almost 30 m (100 ft) at each end to just 10.6 m (35 ft) for the smallest masts. The shape of the bridge is designed to reflect the masts of the sailing boats which use the dock.