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May 15, 1975. 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 ...
Haggard Ford Swinging Bridge. Hal W. Adams Bridge. Hennepin Avenue Bridge. Hutsonville Bridge.
Notes. ^ The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge held the record of the longest bridge span in the world from 1964 to 1981.[1] ^ At the time of its opening in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge was the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world,[4] titles it held until 1964 and 1998 respectively.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Map showing location of the bridge. The 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the first bridge at this location, was a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. It opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed into ...
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.
John Augustus Roebling (born Johann August Röbling; June 12, 1806 – July 22, 1869) was a German -born American civil engineer. [ 1 ] He designed and built wire rope suspension bridges, in particular the Brooklyn Bridge, which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
Laughery Creek Bridge, Dearborn County; only known example of a Triple Whipple Truss bridge in the world. Lincoln Memorial Bridge, downtown Vincennes to Illinois (old US 50) Parke County Covered Bridges. Sherman Minton Bridge, New Albany to Louisville, Kentucky. William H. Natcher Bridge, Rockport to Owensboro, Kentucky.
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, California—the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula—to Marin County, carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait.