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For example, the Bridge of Sighs in Cambridge, and Oxford's Bridge of Sighs and Logic Lane covered bridge. A jet bridge is an enclosed, moveable bridge which extends from an airport terminal gate to an airplane , allowing passengers to board and disembark without having to go outside.
The Book's Covered Bridge, also known as Kaufman Covered Bridge, is a historic wooden covered bridge located at Jackson Township near Blain in Perry County, Pennsylvania. It is a 70-foot-long (21 m) Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1884.
The World Guide to Covered Bridges is published by the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges (NSPCB). [1] It uses a covered bridge numbering system developed by John Diehl, the chairman of the Ohio Covered Bridge Committee. The committee first used the numbering system in 1953 to publish a list of covered bridges in Ohio. [2]
This 86.5-foot-long (26.4 m), 18.66-foot-wide (5.69 m), Howe truss bridge was built in 1855. It was renovated by the Works Progress Administration in 1939, and by the city of Philadelphia in 2000. [2] It is the only remaining covered bridge in Philadelphia and is the only covered bridge in a major US city.
Examples of truss construction on covered bridges include Howe, Town Lattice, Queen-post, King-post, Haupt, Burr, Brown and Pratt. Of the existing historic covered bridges in Alabama, the Gilliland-Reese Covered Bridge and the Old Union Crossing Covered Bridge are classified as non-authentic based on their current construction.
The book was written by Brenda Krekeler and published by Daring Books in 1989. Covered Bridges Today is a frequently cited source on the topic of covered bridges and serves as a record of numerous covered bridges that have since been dismantled or demolished since the book's publication. Krekeler's text includes 412 covered bridges in fourteen ...
The bridge is the only remaining covered bridge in Ontario and the second oldest surviving bridge in the Region of Waterloo. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] (In 2015, the total number of surviving covered bridges in Canada was below 200.) [ 3 ] John Bear, who had previously built barns, built the bridge in 1880–1881, mostly of oak and white pine.
[4] [8] The original bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 14, 1973. [1] In 2009, the county planned to spend over $19,000 on capital improvements for the Covered Bridge County Park, with part of the money to be used for new decking and railings for the bridge. [7]