Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

Rope bridges, a simple type of suspension bridge, were used by the Inca civilization in the Andes mountains of South America, just prior to European colonization in the 16th century.

Beam bridges are the most common bridge type in use today.

This type, often found in east-Asian style gardens, is called a Moon bridge, evoking a rising full moon.

Another type of bridging vehicle is the truck launched bridge.

Earlier examples of bridging vehicles include a type in which a converted tank hull is the bridge.

The bridge is a straight level bridge, which is quite unusual for Medieval Europe, where lack of technological skills meant that most bridges were of the humpback type.

Its mediaeval stone gated bridge is the only one of its type remaining in Britain.

A cable modem is a type of network bridge and modem that provides bi-directional data communication via radio frequency channels on a hybrid fibre-coaxial ( HFC ) and RFoG infrastructure.

* Wien bridge oscillator, a type of electronic oscillator

The first type has two insulated wires led into the interior and attached to two insulated brass cones which are connected by a wire " bridge " of platinum silver.

The bridge itself was built in 1773 of Portland stone with a Dutch type timber raised platform which was replaced in 1892 with an iron swing bridge.

If the tandem team does not practice this, then they often reserve this type of start for when they are faced with a bridge or hill.

It has two decks and carries both road and rail traffic, which also makes it the largest suspension bridge of this type.

The Bailey bridge is a type of portable, pre-fabricated, truss bridge.

* Pontoon bridge for another bridge type with mobile military application.

The first bridge was probably a Roman military pontoon type, giving a rapid overland shortcut to Camulodunum from the southern and Kentish ports, along the Roman roads of Stane Street and Watling Street ( the A2 ).

A squeeze play ( or squeeze ) is a type of play late in the hand of contract bridge and other trick-taking game in which the play of a card ( the squeeze card ) forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.

According to an Easton paper of January 19, 1869, Mrs. Sophia Sandt rode from Pennsylvania to New Jersey and back again in her sleigh “ amidst the applause of the people .” The bridge, of the Burr Truss type, was 775 feet long, 18 feet wide, and cost about $ 40, 000 to construct.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

The doctor agreed, but explained that it would be necessary first to check Fred's blood to ascertain whether or not it was of the same type as Papa's.

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

He was placed in charge of athletics, and among other things adapted the type of calisthenics known as the daily dozen.

There was no evidence, either of a positive or negative type, of the actions of a Divine Being in this world ; ;

But that scarcely means that he was the aloof, forbidding type of student who shared few if any activities with his fellows, the banter of the surviving prolusions providing enough evidence to deny this.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

For it was Rameau's type of music that he had been trying to write, and that he couldn't write.

Until 1958 the state was also entitled to a special type of manufacturers' discount through the dealers.

He said he was the lonely type and working in a cellar you saw funny things coming out of the cracks in the wall if they wasn't nobody with you.

There appeared to be no difference in the distribution of anti-A and anti-B activity in group O serum, though in two group O donors ( J. F. and E. M. ) only one type of agglutinin was found in the regions of low anionic binding capacity ( Figs. 1 and 2 ).

In all cases the activity against Af cells was spread over a wider area than that with Af cells, regardless of the type of test ( saline, albumin, indirect Coombs ) used for comparison.

Final ratings were made on the basis of a point system which was developed after studying the distributions of actual behaviors recorded and assigning weight values to each type of behavior that was deviant from the discovered norms.

Since this type of item was not in the statute when section 381 was enacted in 1954, one cannot say with certainty what effect the enactment of that section should have.

Therefore, his only recourse was to learn the shape all over again for each new visual experience of the same individual object or type of object ; ;

The ship was a Waco biplane, one of the first two of its type to be fitted with the air cooled, 225/hp Wright radial engine known as the Whirlwind.

These carts were of a type devised in Pembina in the days of Alexander Henry the Younger about a decade before the Selkirk colony was begun.

Corporations should pay added taxes, to be used for educational purposes ( not necessarily of the formal type ).

An agreement allowing convicts to pass on type of locks used on prison doors.

Moreover, whereas in Interstate Commerce Commission parlance `` variable cost '' means a cost deemed to vary in direct proportion to changes in rate of output, in the type of analysis now under review `` variable cost '' has been used more broadly, so as to cover costs which, while a function of some one variable ( such as output of energy, or number of customers ), are not necessarily a linear function.

A DUF entry must be supplied for every unit record file describing the type of file and the unit record equipment to be used.

The most important factor in determining what properties the end-product will have is quite naturally the type of hydroxyl-rich compound that is used in its production.

The preparation of test specimens will vary depending upon the type of dimensional restorability procedure ( if any ) to be used.

The type of presentation of results used in the deterministic process may be used here, except that now the fourth column is redundant.

The last stage in the development of the Kouros type is the late archaic period ( 520 – 485 BC ), in which the Greek sculpture attained a full knowledge of human anatomy and used to create a relative harmonious whole.

The type of abacus shown here is often used to represent numbers without the use of place value.

Gödel's completeness theorem establishes the completeness of a certain commonly used type of deductive system.

The name is derived from the type genus Apium, which was originally used by Pliny the Elder circa 50 AD for a celery-like plant.

A simple form of AM, often used for digital communications, is on-off keying: a type of amplitude-shift keying in which binary data is represented by the presence or absence of a carrier.

" Amber " perfumes may be created using combinations of labdanum, benzoin resin, copal ( itself a type of tree resin used in incense manufacture ), vanilla, Dammara resin and / or synthetic materials.

* Bucium, a type of alphorn used by mountain dwellers in Romania.

They used a calorimeter to estimate the heat evolved per unit of carbon dioxide produced, eventually finding the same ratio for a flame and animals, indicating that animals produced energy by a type of combustion reaction.

The term " wild type " allele is sometimes used to describe an allele that is thought to contribute to the typical phenotypic character as seen in " wild " populations of organisms, such as fruit flies ( Drosophila melanogaster ).

Ampicillin is closely related to amoxicillin, another type of penicillin, and both are used to treat urinary tract infections, otitis media, Haemophilus influenzae, salmonellosis and Listeria meningitis.

** Aquila pattern power armour is the most commonly used type of power armour in the Space Marines inventory

* Advanced stop line, a type of road marking used at signalised road junctions

The term array is often used to mean array data type, a kind of data type provided by most high-level programming languages that consists of a collection of values or variables that can be selected by one or more indices computed at run-time.

The term is also used, especially in the description of algorithms, to mean associative array or " abstract array ", a theoretical computer science model ( an abstract data type or ADT ) intended to capture the essential properties of arrays.