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Benjamin Franklin Bridge San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge Blue Water Bridge Ambassador Bridge. Chief Engineer Government Bridge (1896) Thebes Bridge (1905) Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge 9.6, Bridge 8.8 and Bridge 5.1 (all 1906–08) Quebec Bridge (1907-1917) McKinley Bridge (1910) Celilo Bridge (1910) Crooked River Railroad Bridge (1911)
[174] [47] Since the New York and Brooklyn Bridge was the only bridge across the East River at that time, it was also called the East River Bridge. [183] Until the construction of the nearby Williamsburg Bridge in 1903, the New York and Brooklyn Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world, [ 184 ] 20% longer than any built previously.
This is a list of people known as the Great, or the equivalent, in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes, such as Persian e Bozorg and Hindustani e Azam . In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to have been a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King" ( King of Kings , Shahanshah ).
The bridge deck is suspended by 162 vertical wrought-iron rods in 81 matching pairs. The Clifton Bridge Company initially managed the bridge under licence from a charitable trust. The trust subsequently purchased the company shares, completing this in 1949 and took over the running of the bridge using the income from tolls to pay for maintenance.
Bridges is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Bridges (1927–2013), English film and television director; Alexander Bridges, English footballer; Angelica Bridges (born 1970), American actress, model and singer
A Bowery storekeeper named Isaac Meyers claimed that he encouraged Brodie to jump off the Brooklyn bridge after Brodie said that he wanted to be famous. [6] Another account holds that Moritz Herzber, a liquor dealer, offered to back a saloon for Brodie if he made the jump and lived. [5] Steve Brodie's bar on the Bowery circa 1886
The bridge connects the city of St. Ignace to the north with the village of Mackinaw City to the south. Envisioned since the 1880s, the bridge was designed by the engineer David B. Steinman and completed in 1957 only after many decades of struggles to begin construction. [6] The bridge has since become an iconic symbol of the state of Michigan ...
The longest bridge is Big Obukhovsky Bridge across Neva River (2,824 meters (9,265 ft)) The widest bridge is Blue Bridge across Moyka River (97.3 meters (319 ft)), which is also claimed to be the widest bridge in the world by some sources, [1] however the Big Bridge in Lockport New York is 400 feet (120 m) wide.