With the span of, the Solkan Bridge over the Soča River at Solkan in Slovenia is the second largest stone bridge in the world and the longest railroad stone bridge.

The difference between the two is that the Solkan Bridge was built from stone blocks, whereas the Friedensbrücke was built from a mixture of crushed stone and cement mortar.

The river runs past the towns of Bovec, Kobarid, Tolmin, Kanal ob Soči, Nova Gorica ( where it is crossed by the Solkan Bridge ) and Gorizia, entering the Adriatic Sea close to the Italian town of Monfalcone.

Several peripherical districts of the Gorizia municipality ( Solkan, Pristava, Rožna Dolina, Kromberk, Šempeter pri Gorici, Vrtojba, Stara Gora, Ajševica, Volčja Draga, Bukovica, Vogrsko ) were handed over to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, together with the vast majority of the former Province of Gorizia.

In the last decade, the town of Nova Gorica, in which municipal territory he resides, has commissioned a number of public monuments from Pogačnik, most notably the monument to the 1000 years of the first mention of Gorica and Solkan, which stands in the town's central public square.

The Essex Merrimack Bridge when first built was not covered.

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

* Altıgöz Bridge, like the Ulu Camii built by the Seljuqs in the 13th century.

An example is the Alcántara Bridge, built over the river Tagus, in Spain.

Although large Chinese bridges of wooden construction existed at the time of the Warring States, the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, built from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty.

The earliest known arch bridges were built by the Greeks, and include the Arkadiko Bridge.

There used to be an exact replica built by Leitch at Stamford Bridge which had long been demolished.

* Eiffel Tower in Paris, designed by Gustave Eiffel in motif as twin to the Eiffel Bridge, re-dubbed Maria Pia Bridge, previously built in Porto, Portugal

* The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, sometimes referred to as the South Capitol Street Bridge, just south of the US Capitol in Washington DC, was built in 1950 and named in his honor.

The West Side Highway, East River Drive, Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, Triborough Bridge, and two airports ( Floyd Bennett Field, and, later, LaGuardia Airport ) were built during his mayoralty.

Thomas Telford | Telford's Clachan Bridge between the mainland and Seil, also known as the " Bridge across the Atlantic ", was built in 1792.

Roads and quays were built ; the slate industry became a significant employer on Easdale and surrounding islands ; and the construction of the Crinan and Caledonian canals and other engineering works such as Telford's " Bridge across the Atlantic " improved transport and access.

During his reign the large Sangarius Bridge was built in Bithynia, securing a major military supply route to the east.

The newly built shopping center Port Grand Food and Entertainment Complex is located at Port of Karachi near Native Jetty Bridge.

In 1315 and 1346, the old stone Lahn Bridge was built ( presumably in two sections ).

* 1820 – James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor, designed and built the Eads Bridge ( d. 1887 )

The first bridge to cross the Murray, which was built in 1869, is in the town of Murray Bridge, formerly called Edwards Crossing.

Much longer anchorage-to-anchorage spans have been built in the Eastern Hemisphere, including the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge in Japan ().

San Francisco Bay is spanned by eight bridges, all of them dedicated to vehicle traffic: the Golden Gate Bridge on Highway 101 ( which was the largest single span suspension bridge ever built at the time of its construction ) which connects San Francisco and Marin counties and is the only bridge in the area not owned by the State of California.

* 1906 – Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.

* 1906 – The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.

After this venture failed, electric trams returned on 5 May 1906, with the opening of the Victorian Railways ' " Electric Street Railway " from St Kilda to Brighton, and was followed on 11 October 1906 with the opening of the North Melbourne Electric Tramway and Lighting Company ( NMETL ) system, which opened two lines from the cable tram terminus at Flemington Bridge to Essendon and Saltwater River ( now Maribyrnong River ).

The system opened on 11 October 1906 operating two routes from Flemington Bridge — one to Essendon via Mount Alexander Road, Pascoe Vale Road, Fletcher Street and onto Mount Alexander Road again ( with a short branch line along Puckle Street ), and the second to Saltwater River via Mount Alexander Road, Victoria Street, Racecourse Road, Epsom Road, Union Road and Maribyrnong Road.

In December 1906, Chattanooga was in the national headlines as the United States Supreme Court, in its only criminal case in its history, ruled that Hamilton County Sheriff Joseph H. Shipp had violated Ed Johnson's civil rights when Shipp allowed a mob to enter the Hamilton County Jail and lynch Johnson on the Walnut Street Bridge in United States v. Shipp.

The community received its name, McLean, from John Roll McLean, the former publisher and owner of The Washington Post, who, with Stephen Benton Elkins and French aristocrat Jean-Pierre Guenard, built in 1906 the electrified Great Falls and Old Dominion Railway ( later the Washington and Old Dominion Railway ), which connected the area with Washington, D. C. McLean named a railroad station after himself where the rail line ( traveling on the present route of Old Dominion Drive ) crossed the old Chain Bridge Road.

Early electric tram at the northern end of the second permanent Victoria Bridge, c. 1906

Courbet's influence can also be seen in the work of Edward Hopper, whose Bridge in Paris ( 1906 ) and Approaching a City ( 1946 ) have been described as Freudian echoes of Courbet's The Source of the Loue and The Origin of the World.

Bridge playing cards w / jumbo indices ( 1906 ). A revenue stamp from a deck of Russell, Morgan & Co. playing cards.

André Derain, Charing Cross Bridge, London ( 1906 ), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

Along with the construction of the new Grand Central Terminal, opened in 1912, the NYC electrified its lines, beginning on December 11, 1906 with suburban multiple unit service to High Bridge on the Hudson Line.

As chief engineer for the London County Council, his design feats included the first Blackwall Tunnel ( 1897 ) and Greenwich foot tunnel ( 1902 ) ( both in Greenwich, London ) and, further upstream, Vauxhall Bridge ( 1906 ).

Opened in 1906, it replaced an earlier bridge, originally known as Regent Bridge but later renamed Vauxhall Bridge, built between 1809 and 1816 as part of a scheme for redeveloping the south bank of the Thames.

The station's name was changed to Westminster Bridge Road in July 1906 and it was again renamed, to Lambeth North, in April 1917.

Numerous alterations to short sections of the original route have taken place, the most notable being the opening of the King Edward VII Bridge in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1906 and the Selby diversion, built to by-pass anticipated mining subsidence from the Selby coalfield and a bottleneck at Selby station.

A new swing-span through-truss bridge called the Highway Bridge, 500 feet ( 150 m ) upriver from that bridge, opened February 12, 1906 to serve non-railroad traffic including streetcars.

After graduation in 1906, he worked in the research department of the Dominion Bridge Company in Montreal.

He privately tutored a number of pupils, most famously Benjamin Britten, who later championed his teacher's music and paid homage to him in the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge ( 1937 ), based on a theme from the second of Bridge's Three Idylls for String Quartet ( 1906 ).

* Frank Bridge ( 1879 – 1941 ) String Sextet ( 1906 – 1912 ) ( 27 ')

In February 1906, 3, 961 square yards of land on the Churwell and Gelderd Road side of the ground was bought from the Monk's Bridge Iron Company at a cost of £ 420.

By 1906 a regular steam operated service was established from Princes Bridge to North Fitzroy station via Clifton Hill, and by 1919 this service was running every hour off peak.

The Clifton Suspension Bridge was opened in 1864 and provided an alternative route to Bristol ; in 1906 a swing bridge was opened to give access to Hotwells.