It is recorded that one tower was still in existence until late in the bridge's life.

The work being undertaken is expected to prolong the bridge's life for another 75 years.

On 1 January 1984, the Cuscatlan bridge over Lempa river in El Salvador, critical to flow of commercial and military traffic, was destroyed by guerilla forces using explosives after using mortar fire to " scatter " the bridge's guards, causing an estimated 3. 7 million dollars in required repairs, and considerably impacted El Salvadoran business and security.

One of the Wheatstone bridge's initial uses was for the purpose of soils analysis and comparison.

The bridge's central section was, ironically, demolished by the Wehrmacht during the German occupation of World War II to allow for the free movement of its vehicles.

In order to speed the process of rebuilding, the main body of the bridge was moved outside of the previous bridge's debris area.

The bridge's management was delegated to the FRBJB, and remained so until 2002 when its operation was transferred to a new body with a wider remit, the Forth Estuary Transport Authority.

The bridge's length was measured to be 364. 4 smoots ( 620. 1 m ) plus or minus one ear, with the " plus or minus " intended to express uncertainty of measurement.

As of 1 April 2012, the toll was reduced to £ 1. 50 each way after the UK government cut £ 150 million from the bridge's current debt.

Until it was completed the bridge was known as the Jubilee Bridge in honour of King George V. It was opened on 6 July 1940 by Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, Governor of Queensland and named for John Douglas Story, a senior and influential public servant who had advocated strongly for the bridge's construction.

In 1990 road traffic was halted so pedestrians could celebrate the 50th anniversary of the bridge's construction.

The state government was reluctant to take on responsibility for the bridge's construction because it didn't want to incur debt.

The style of the bridge's design is art deco, which was popular at the time.

Here the retreating Ottoman and German rearguard had blown up the bridge's central arch which was repaired in five hours by Sappers attached to the Australian Mounted Division.

The reason for the dropping of twin-bridge alternatives was a request by the FAA to decrease the height of the bridge's towers to prevent interference for flights into and out of Newark Liberty International Airport.

After delivering a characteristically pessimistic speech, Marvin was plugged into the bridge's opening circuits and the whole cyberstructure instantly folded itself up and collapsed from sheer misery, presumably after being directly exposed to Marvin's chronically depressed view of the Universe.

The slow decline of the bridge's central role began in 1754: " Starting in 1754, the first year of the vogue, the madness of the boulevards, it was no longer the thing to talk about the Cours Champs-Elysées, and still less

In 2001, a long and wide cantilevered walkway was installed on the southern side of the bridge's lower deck as part of the Eastbank Esplanade construction, raising to three the number of publicly accessible walkways across the bridge, including the two narrow sidewalks on the upper deck.

Initially it carried horse-drawn trams, but shortly after the bridge's opening it was converted to carry the electric trams of London County Council Tramways ; it continued to carry trams until the ending of tram services in 1951.

Further justification for new footbridge structures both upstream and downstream of the railway bridge was that Sir John Hawkshaw's railway bridge's brittle wrought iron support pillars were vulnerable to impact from riverboats.

Especially following the Marchioness disaster it was felt these should be clad in concrete at water level but the bridge's owners, Railtrack, could not afford the work.

Part of the bridge's strength and reliability came from the fact that each cable was replaced every year by local villagers as part of their mita public service or obligation.

At the Conemaugh Viaduct, a high railroad bridge, the flood temporarily was stopped when debris jammed against the stone bridge's arch.

A bridge's economic efficiency will be site and traffic dependent, the ratio of savings by having a bridge ( instead of, for example, a ferry, or a longer road route ) compared to its cost.

The bridge's destruction at Ragnarök by the forces of Muspell is foretold.

Unprecedented construction and population growth in Lethem since the bridge's opening reflects the significantly increased traffic and movement of goods facilitated by the bridge.

The bridge's movements were caused by a ' positive feedback ' phenomenon, known as synchronous lateral excitation.

The bridge's strength is provided by the panels on the sides.

A skaldic tradition describes the bridge's destruction in 1014 by Æthelred's ally Olaf, to divide the Danish forces who held both the walled City of London and Southwark.

The main strung cables are in diameter and each carries 13, 800 tonnes of the bridge's load by suspending 11, 618 diameter high tensile wires.

The bridge forms a crucial part of the corridor between south-east and north-east Scotland, linking Edinburgh to Perth, Dundee and Aberdeen by the A90 road and its sister M90 motorway, which begins north of the bridge's northern terminus.

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Hanley ( William Powell ) and Loco Dempsey ( Betty Grable ), driving back into Manhattan from the " Elks Lodge ", are pulled over by motorcycle cops so the bridge commission can recognize " the lucky couple " as the occupants of the bridge's 50th million vehicle.

In the immediate days after the bridge's capture, the German Army Command desperately attempted to destroy the bridge by bombing it and having divers mine it.

The footbridge is named for Simon Benson, who financed the bridge's construction in 1914 by Italian stonemasons.

It is a steel truss railway bridge — sometimes known as the Charing Cross Bridge — flanked by two more recent, cable-stayed, pedestrian bridges that share the railway bridge's foundation piers, and which are properly named the Golden Jubilee Bridges.

The deck is secured in place by steel collars fitted around ( although not supported by ) the pillars of the railway bridge ; the collars are themselves attached to the bridge's foundations by tie-down rods.

In 1986, McCarthy parlayed the idea to illuminate the main cables of Vancouver's Lions Gate Bridge and arranged private-sector sponsorship by the Guinness family, the bridge's builders and original owners.

The allowable size is limited by the width and length of the available lock chambers, by the depth of the water in the canal and by the height of the Bridge of the Americas since that bridge's construction.

Slowly decaying, the bridge's wooden structures were replaced with steel and iron versions by 1886, and the renovated bridge was stronger, capable of bearing a heavier load.

Another problem arose around 2005 – 2006 when several news bureaus reported paint discolorations on the bridge's cables.