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The Wheeling Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the main channel of the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia. It was the largest suspension bridge in the world from 1849 until 1851. Charles Ellet Jr. (who also worked on the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge ) designed it and supervised construction of what became the first bridge ...
Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company and others in the United States Supreme Court. The case concerned the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, the largest suspension bridge in the world at that time, and an important connector for the National Road. The bridge's center rose some ninety feet (twenty-seven meters) but proved to be a nuisance to passing ...
The Wheeling Bridge Company was represented by Charles W. Russell and U.S. Attorney general Reverdy Johnson (supposedly in a private capacity but who had denied Pennsylvania's request for his federal office's assistance)), [12] among others. They argued the bridge helped the U.S. mails (delayed during ice and high and low water periods ...
As both Congressman and state judge, he was involved in cases involving the Wheeling Suspension Bridge (completed in 1849) and a nearby railroad bridge which helped Wheeling become an important gateway city between the Ohio River valley and Eastern and international markets. As Congressman, Thompson introduced documents supporting the bridge ...
Wheeling Suspension Bridge circa 1850. After returning from Europe, Ellet worked on the Utica and Schenectady Railroad and was appointed to conduct a survey of the Western New York section of the New York and Erie Railroad. [10] In 1832, he submitted a proposal to Congress for a suspension bridge across the Potomac River, but it was rejected. [11]
Wistow compared a bridge lawsuit to his case against those involved in the state's failed 38 Studios loan and noted that in that case, all of the civil case records produced by the plaintiffs were ...
The Angers Bridge after its collapse Wheeling Suspension Bridge: Wheeling, West Virginia (then Virginia) United States 17 May 1854: Suspension bridge carrying the National Road over the Ohio River: Torsional movement and vertical undulations caused by wind No casualties Deck destroyed; towers left intact and remain in use today Gasconade Bridge
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