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The bridge was built in 1884 by Elias McMellen.
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It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.
As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.
A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.
The special guard, however, was still posted on Kehl bridge.
Grabski's shanty was beyond the bridge over the River Bystrzyca near the rail center.
A month later the General Court served notice to the town of Newbury that the bridge was to be built.
On November 26 of that year the bridge was completed and opened.
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 was indeed a remarkable feat that a man who had had no experience of bridge building should have applied the principle of the arch, which appears in his famous bridges at Portsmouth, Haverhill, and Philadelphia.
The `` Essex Journal '' says that he `` delivered an oration on the bridge, which for elegance of style, propriety of speech or force of argument, was truly Ciceronian ''.
The north portion of the Essex bridge was well worth the cost of construction, although it proved to be twice what was estimated in the beginning.
In 1810 it was torn down and replaced by a chain suspension bridge.
In spite of this catastrophe, the bridge was rebuilt on the same plan and opened again on July 17, 1827.
This second chain bridge was 570 feet long, had two thirty-foot towers and a draw, and a double roadway.
The Essex bridge was a toll crossing until 1868, when the County Commissioners laid out all the Merrimack bridges as highways.
He was closely followed by the Ohio and Indiana troops -- thus the old bridge has another distinction ; ;
Completed and opened for traffic in 1852, the bridge was designed and built by Lemuel Chenoweth and his brother, Eli, of Beverly.
The Philippi bridge, however, was the Chenoweth master piece, with its 139-foot, dual lane, span -- and it stands today as a monument to its builders.
Never rebuilt, the bridge was strengtened in 1938 by two extra piers, a concrete floor, and a walk-way along the upper side in order to care for modern traffic.
General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.
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Many of the burhs were twin towns that straddled a river and connected by a fortified bridge, like those built by Charles the Bald a generation before.
It crosses Florence, where it passes below the Ponte Vecchio and the Santa Trìnita bridge ( built by Bartolomeo Ammanati, but inspired by Michelangelo ).
A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.
List of Roman bridges | Roman bridge of Córdoba, Spain, built in the 1st century BC.
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.
In 1927 welding pioneer Stefan Bryła designed the first welded road bridge in the world, which was later built across the river Słudwia Maurzyce near Łowicz, Poland in 1929.
Modern bridge are currently built in concrete, steel, fiber reinforced polymers ( FRP ), stainless steel or combinations of those materials.
Often in palaces a bridge will be built over an artificial waterway as symbolic of a passage to an important place or state of mind.
The bridge will be built near the northern end of the Bosphorus, between the villages of Garipçe on the European side and Poyrazköy on the Asian side.
A bridge was built over the river Nabalia, where the warring parties approached each other on both sides to negotiate peace.
* Wettsteinbrücke ( current structure built 1998, original bridge built 1879 )
* Mittlere Brücke ( current structure built 1905, original bridge built 1225 as the first bridge to cross the Rhine River )
* Dreirosenbrücke ( built 2004, original bridge built 1935 )
They took a detour and built a new bridge over the river, just outside of Tavistock.
Finberg pointed out, however, that a document of 1651 refers to Tavistock's guildhall as Guilehall, so Guilebridge is more likely to be guild bridge, probably because it was built or maintained by one of the town guilds.
In 39, Caligula performed a spectacular stunt by ordering a temporary floating bridge to be built using ships as pontoons, stretching for over two miles from the resort of Baiae to the neighboring port of Puteoli.
The original bridge was built with private capital and then purchased by the state for $ 2. 5 million in 1951.
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* 1884 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American businessman, yachtsman, and bridge player ( d. 1970 )
The first railway bridge, the Claudelands Bridge, was opened in 1884.
* It was the inspiration for a bridge constructed in 1884 between the Allegheny County Courthouse and the old county jail in downtown Pittsburgh, USA.
The bridge was manufactured in 1884, and crossed the Great Northern Railway at Newark-on-Trent for 103 years before it was put to a new use.
The first railway line that connected it to the west was built in 1883, and the first railway bridge over the Sava followed shortly thereafter in 1884.
In 1884 the New South Wales Government purchased the bridge and it was demolished in 1895.
In 1884 a temporary bridge was put up to allow a more limited cross-river traffic while a replacement was constructed.
From 1884 serious problems were found in Rennie's bridge piers, after scour from the increased river flow after Old London Bridge was demolished damaged their foundations.
Unfortunately a fire occurred on 5 June 1884 and destroyed the furnace bridge and mosaic of the chorus ; moreover the statue d ' money of the Virgin is damaged.
Cromwell Road extension, across the West London railway line and towards Hammersmith, was authorised as a bridge across the railway in 1884, but never completed until 1941, and thus it was only in post-WW2 times that it was connected to become the main A4 route into London.
Isaac Campbell Kidd ( March 26, 1884 – December 7, 1941 ) was an American Rear Admiral in the United States Navy who was killed on the bridge of the during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The construction consortium was made up of the Eiffage TP company for the concrete part, the Eiffel company for the steel roadway ( Gustave Eiffel built the Garabit viaduct in 1884, a railway bridge in the neighboring Cantal département ), and the Enerpac company for the roadway's hydraulic supports.
It was widened in 1877 then converted into a two-lane bridge in 1884.
The ford was upgraded to a railway bridge in 1884.
The bridge was constructed between 1882 and 1884 by Gustave Eiffel, with structural engineering by Maurice Koechlin, and was opened in 1885.
Designed and built by Rowland Mason Ordish in 1873 as an Ordish – Lefeuvre Principle modified cable-stayed bridge, it proved to be structurally unsound, and so between 1884 and 1887 Sir Joseph Bazalgette incorporated some of the design elements of a suspension bridge.
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt ( 6 July 1884 – 4 July 1970 ) was an American railroad executive, a champion yachtsman, a champion bridge player and a member of the Vanderbilt family.
It has the second oldest bridge in the Free State which was opened 1884 and spans the Wilge River.
In 1884 a metal bridge was built across the River Slaney just upstream from today's bridgeday.
The Moscow – Kazan line was completed, except for the Imperatorsky Romanovsky railway bridge across Volga, in December 1884 by private Moscow Ryazan Railway Company which was renamed to Moscow Kazan Railway Company on July 11, 1891, which provided all train service in the area up to 1918, when all the remaining private railways were nationalized by the Bolsheviks.
An iron truss bridge was first built here in 1884, slightly upstream from the current location ( connecting Washington Avenue on both sides of the river ).
The 1884 bridge was torn down in 1965.
When first built the station was situated between two tunnels but the West Tunnel was opened out by June 1881 and the Eastcliffe Tunnel leading to the Sea Wall was removed by 1884, when the distinctive lattice girder bridge at the end of the Sea Wall was installed.
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