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A simple suspension bridge (also rope bridge, swing bridge (in New Zealand), suspended bridge, hanging bridge and catenary bridge) is a primitive type of bridge in which the deck of the bridge lies on two parallel load-bearing cables that are anchored at either end. They have no towers or piers.
Simple suspension bridge: the earliest known type of suspension bridge, and usually a footbridge. The deck is flexible and lies on the main cables, which are anchored to the earth. Underspanned suspension bridge: an early 19th-century descendant of the simple suspension bridge. The deck is raised on posts above the main cables.
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.
English: A simple suspension bridge. The pathway is shown in two colors to emphasize the difference with Image:Bridge-suspension-nonsimple.svg, where one color is used for the (suspended) cable and another for the pathway (deck).
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English: A suspension bridge. This drawing is used for comparing this kind of bridge with File:Bridge-suspension-simple.svg, where the two lines in magenta and green (cable and pathway) are merged in one.