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  2. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    American historic carpentry is the historic methods with which wooden buildings were built in what is now the United States since European settlement. A number of methods were used to form the wooden walls and the types of structural carpentry are often defined by the wall, floor, and roof construction such as log, timber framed, balloon framed ...

  3. Fink truss - Wikipedia

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    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 66 bridges on the railroad. The first Fink Truss bridge was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1852 to span the Monongahela River at Fairmont, Virginia (now West Virginia). It consisted of ...

  4. List of bridges documented by the Historic American ...

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    Ohio and Erie Canal, Tinkers Creek Aqueduct: Replaced Pratt truss: 1826 1986 Ohio and Erie Canal: Tinkers Creek: Valley View: Cuyahoga: OH-61: Ohio and Erie Canal, Furnace Run Aqueduct Ruin Bowstring arch truss: 1859 1986 Ohio and Erie Canal

  5. South Salem Covered Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The South Salem Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge in northwestern Ross County, Ohio, United States. It was built in the 1870s and has been designated a historic site because of its well-preserved historic engineering. [1] Since its construction, it has carried Lower Twin Road over Buckskin Creek in Buckskin Township. [2]

  6. Ambridge–Aliquippa Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The first Carquinez Strait Bridge in Vallejo, CA, built in 1927, was a back-to-back 1,100 foot cantilevered truss. The bridge was closed temporarily in November 2021 for repairs, causing extreme traffic problems for residents of the surrounding community. It reopened in December 2021 with no plans for closures in the foreseeable future.

  7. Covered bridge - Wikipedia

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    The designer is unknown. About 500 of these were built in the first half of the 20th century. [23] They were often built by local settlers using local materials, according to standard plans. [19] The last agricultural colony was founded in 1948, and the last bridge was built by the Ministry of Colonisation in 1958 in Lebel-sur-Quévillon. [23]

  8. Everett S. Sherman - Wikipedia

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    Everett S. Sherman (1831-1897) [1] was a covered bridge builder in Ohio. He lived and built bridges in Delaware County then moved to Preble County after a storm destroyed many of its bridges. [ 1 ]

  9. History of construction - Wikipedia

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    The Romans substituted bronze for wood in the roof truss(s) of the Pantheon's portico which was commissioned between 27 BC and 14 AD. The bronze trusses were unique but in 1625 Pope Urban VIII had the trusses replaced with wood and melted the bronze down for other uses. The Romans also made bronze roof tiles.

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