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The bridge was designed to resist the violent floods of the Tarn River, and indeed it successfully withstood the two terrible millennial floods of 1441 and 1930.
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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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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.
The first known cable-stayed bridge was designed in 1784 by C. T.
A bridge can be categorized by what it is designed to carry, such as trains, pedestrian or road traffic, a pipeline or waterway for water transport or barge traffic.
These are designed so that everything from the machine heads down to the bridge are located on the same piece of wood.
For example, generally German-style games do not have a fixed number of players like chess or bridge ; though there is a sizable body of German-style games that are designed for exactly two players, most games can accommodate anywhere from two to six players ( with varying degrees of suitability ).
Envisioned since the 1880s, the bridge was designed by engineer David B. Steinman and completed in 1957 only after many decades of struggles to begin construction.
In 2004, Foster designed the tallest bridge in the world, the Millau Viaduct in southern France, with the Millau Mayor Jacques Godfrain stating ; " The architect, Norman Foster, gave us a model of art.
As part of a Navy competition, prototypes for a prefabricated " heavy landing bridge " or jetty ( similar in function to later Allied Mulberry Harbours ) were designed and built by Krupp Stahlbau and Dortmunder Union and successfully overwintered in the North Sea in 1941-42.
The minimalist styled bridge is designed as a sweeping double curve of black granite and the sides are formed of bronze posts that give the impression, from certain angles, of forming a solid wall whereas from others, and to those on the bridge, they are clearly individual entities that allow a view of the water beyond.
* 1901 – Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed Bailey bridge ( d. 1985 )
Bradfield of the NSW Department of Public Works, the bridge was designed and built by British firm Dorman Long and Co Ltd of Middlesbrough
A light-show began after sunset and continued late into the night, the bridge being bathed in constantly changing, multi-coloured lighting, designed to highlight structural features of the bridge.
This new bridge designed by Thomas Page had replaced the old bridge.
* July 26 – Opening of Union Chain Bridge across the River Tweed between England and Scotland, a wrought iron suspension bridge designed by Captain Samuel Brown.
Ogden designed the first swing bridge over the Chicago River and donated the land for Rush Medical Center.
W and Y, X and Z are conjugate pairsA hybrid coil ( or bridge transformer, or sometimes hybrid ) is a transformer that has three windings, and which is designed to be configured as a circuit having four branches, ( i. e. ports ) that are conjugate in pairs.
In 1790 he designed a bridge carrying the London-Holyhead road over the River Severn at Montford, the first of some 40 bridges he built in Shropshire, including major crossings of the Severn at Buildwas, and Bridgnorth.
Several central London road bridges were built in the 19th century, most conspicuously Tower Bridge, the only Bascule bridge on the river, designed to allow ocean going ships to pass beneath it.
The Jedi starfighter, created for Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, was designed to bridge the appearance of the Jedi starfighter in Episode II: Attack of the Clones and the TIE fighter design from the original trilogy.
An emergency care practitioner is a position sometimes referred to as a ' super paramedic ' and is designed to bridge the link between ambulance care and the care of a general practitioner.
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This has the disadvantage, compared to the suspension bridge, of the cables pulling to the sides as opposed to directly up, requiring the bridge deck to be stronger to resist the resulting horizontal compression loads ; but has the advantage of not requiring firm anchorages to resist a horizontal pull of the cables, as in the suspension bridge.
Unlike the other cable-stayed types shown this bridge exerts considerable overturning force upon its foundation and the spar must resist the bending caused by the cables, as the cable forces are not balanced by opposing cables.
There are also concerns about the environmental impact of the bridge, its actual feasibility, and whether it could resist earthquakes, which are not uncommon in the region.
Meanwhile, Pajota's men continued to resist the attacking enemy until they could finally withdraw at 22: 00, when the Japanese forces stopped charging the bridge.
The retreat of the cavalry, news of defeat at Three Rocks, the prospect of facing rebels with artillery, and the visible massing of more rebels north across Wexford bridge sapped the garrison's will to resist, and envoys suing for peace were dispatched to parley with the approaching rebels.
Each truss always includes a top and bottom chord, the major beams which resist the bending induced by stresses on the bridge.
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