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Suspension bridges in West Virginia (6 P) This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 10:02 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Janberg, Nicolas, Suspension bridges, Structurae.de (an extensive database of structures including many suspension bridges) Durkee, Jackson, "World's Longest Bridge Spans", National Steel Bridge Alliance, 24 May 1999 (out of date) The World's Greatest Bridges, Archive.org copy of The Bridge over the Strait of Messina website (out of date and ...
Suspension bridges in the United States by state or territory (15 C) Pages in category "Suspension bridges in the United States" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge (formerly the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge) is a suspension bridge that spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky. When opened on December 1, 1866, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world at 1,057 feet (322 m) main span, [ 3 ] which was later overtaken by John A ...
A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. [5] [6] Simple suspension bridges, which lack vertical suspenders, have a long history in many mountainous parts of the world.
Contractor Amos Peters, who worked in a nearby office and was a member of the Sandbaggers civic fraternity, [5] constructed the bridge using aluminum piping covered with a retired fire hose and designed it to resemble a small suspension bridge. It cost approximately $1,000 to assemble the bridge.
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His Jacob's Creek Bridge, built in 1801 for US$600 ($10,987 in 2023), [3] and demolished in 1833, was the first example of a suspension bridge using wrought iron chains and with a level deck. It connected Uniontown to Greensburg , spanning 70 feet (21 metres), and was 12 feet 6 inches (3.81 m) wide.