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The Iron Bridge is a cast iron arch bridge that crosses the River Severn in Shropshire, England. Opened in 1781, it was the first major bridge in the world to be made of cast iron . Its success inspired the widespread use of cast iron as a structural material, and today the bridge is celebrated as a symbol of the Industrial Revolution .
Dunlap's Creek Bridge is the first arch bridge in the United States built of cast iron. It was designed by Richard Delafield and built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers . [ 4 ] Constructed from 1836 to 1839 on the National Road in Brownsville, Pennsylvania , it remains in use today.
Darby's iron smelting was but one small part of this generalised revolution and was soon superseded by the great iron-smelting areas. However, the bridge – being the first of its kind fabricated from cast iron, and one of the few which have survived to the present day – remains an important symbol representative of the dawn of the ...
The Bow Bridge / ˈ b oʊ / is a cast iron bridge located in Central Park, New York City, crossing over the Lake and used as a pedestrian walkway. [1] It is decorated with an interlocking circles banister, with eight planting urns on top of decorative bas-relief panels. Intricate arabesque elements and volutes can be seen underneath the span arch.
The bridge is of exceptional interest as one of the earliest bridges with an unmodified cast-iron structure to survive. Built for Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis the owner of Culford Park in 1804, it is a unique example of a cast iron bridge built to the patent of Samuel Wyatt. The rib castings feature oval tubular sections and is ...
The Iron Bridge, Shropshire, England; the first major bridge in the world to be made of cast iron; The Iron Bridge, Rothiemurchus, Scotland, also known as the Cairngorm Club Footbridge; The Iron Bridge, Culford Park, in Suffolk, England; Iron Bridge, Riga, in Latvia; Iron Bridge, Satu Mare, in Romania; Aldford Iron Bridge in Aldford, Cheshire ...
Cantlop Bridge is a single span cast-iron road bridge over the Cound Brook, located to the north of Cantlop in the parish of Berrington, Shropshire.It was constructed in 1818 to a design possibly by Thomas Telford, having at least been approved by him, [1] and replaced an unsuccessful cast iron coach bridge constructed in 1812. [2]
Waterloo Bridge (Welsh: Pont Waterloo) is an early cast iron bridge, spanning the River Conwy at Betws-y-Coed, in Conwy county borough, north-west Wales. A view of the Waterloo Bridge c.1815. The bridge is located about half a mile south-east of the village. It was built by the civil engineer Thomas Telford.