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.

However, the advent of a convenient ( if circuitous ) land route from Montevideo to Buenos Aires via the new bridge reduced freight and passenger traffic through the small port of Colonia on the Río de la Plata just opposite the Argentine capital.

NCL converted the Key System's electric streetcar fleet to diesel buses, tracks were removed from Oakland's streets, and the lower deck of the Bay Bridge was converted to automobile traffic, which reduced the passenger carrying capacity of the bridge.

In fact, the concrete deck had deteriorated so much that the weight limit for vehicles crossing bridge was in danger of being reduced to 17 tonnes.

In Reading at Bridge Street the navigable headroom had been reduced from to by strengthening girders added to the underside of the bridge.

The road-distance between Hull and Grimsby was reduced by nearly as a consequence of the bridge.

* much greater stiffness than the suspension bridge, so that deformations of the deck under live loads are reduced

In this set-up a broken string will have no effect on the pitch of the other strings, as the reduced overall string tension caused by the broken string will not cause the bridge to move, as it is already in contact with the body of the guitar.

For two years after the floods, the bridge was reduced to a single lane, with one way traffic controlled by traffic lights at each end of the bridge.

The sides of the bridge are fitted with special railings to reduce lateral wind loads coming from the Severn Estuary onto the traffic and this has reduced the number of times that speed restrictions have been needed.

In 2010, Clarence Alderman Richard James stated that it was time to consider the replacement of the Tasman Bridge with a new bridge of suspension or cable stay design citing that the current bridge was facing a greatly reduced lifespan due to damage to the internal steel structure caused by the Tasman Bridge disaster.

Eltham was bestowed by Charles II on John Shaw and — in its ruinous condition, reduced to Edward IV's Great Hall, the former buttery, called " Court House ", a bridge across the moat and some walling — remained with Shaw's descendants as late as 1893.

During this time the bridge charter was revised, and the span of the bridge was reduced to a minimum of.

A narrow gauge railway line is built to Sarajevo and the significance of the bridge is soon reduced, but not completely, as will become apparent subsequently.

In 1972, a new concrete dual-track railway bridge was opened to the west of the original Como Railway Bridge to remove the bottleneck imposed by the original single-track design which had reduced service numbers on the increasingly busy Sutherland line.

Aust is also home to Severn View services, a small motorway service station near the bridge, which was reduced in size due to falling business caused by the traffic going over the newer bridge.

Amenity and navigability through Sunshine was reduced in 1961 with the replacement of the Hampshire Rd railway level crossing with a grade separation of the intersection in the form of a flyover bridge.

The bridge was opened to much fanfare on 30 January 1826 and reduced the journey time from London to Holyhead from 36 to 27 hours, a saving of 9 hours.

Though it opened as a four-lane bridge, the lanes were reduced in a 1996 – 97 1½-year bridge deck-replacement project to three wider lanes ( two toll lanes northwestward into Philadelphia, and one free lane southeastward into New Jersey ).

Though originally constructed with eight lanes, the bridge was reduced to six lanes with two shoulders in 2000.

The word " SURRENDER " was reduced in size to fit into a single section of the rail bridge, and the word " DOROTHY " was omitted from the graffiti.

The first bridge known to have been covered wholly or in part, -- and perhaps the most interesting one, connected Newbury ( now Newburyport ) with Salisbury Point.

The whole length of Essex bridge is one thousand and thirty feet and its breadth thirty-four.

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.

But to operate in American politics one must go a step further -- one must build a bridge to such names, establish a warmth, a personal connection ''.

he studied them, compared them with what he had been taught as a nestling, struggling to bridge between languages, the one he thought with and the one he was learning to think in.

The area was just out of Sujikai-gomon city gate ( present Mansei bridge ) which was one of the city gates ( Mitsuke ) of old Edo ( Tokyo ).

The Arkadiko Bridge in Greece ( 13th century BC ), one of the oldest arch bridge s in existence

In one common challenge students are divided into groups and given a quantity of wood sticks, a distance to span, and glue, and then asked to construct a bridge that will be tested to destruction by the progressive addition of load at the center of the span.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online and with friends at home, making it one of the world's most popular card games, particularly among seniors.

In rubber bridge, two partnerships participate in the game at one table and the objective is to score the most points in the play of several hands.

In one of two stanzas in the poem Grímnismál that mentions the bridge, Grímnir ( the god Odin in disguise ) provides the young Agnarr with cosmological knowledge, including that Bilröst is the best of bridges.

He was then employed in 1569 to build the beautiful bridge over the Arno, known as Ponte Santa Trinita and one of his most celebrated works.

The one major paratrooper attack was used earlier in Holland to capture a bridge and a number of small-scale glider-landings were conducted in Belgium to capture terrain dominating bottle-necks on planned routes of advance prior to the arrival of the main ground forces ( the most renowned being the landing on the Belgian border-fort of Eben-Emael ).

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.

Mr. Wait convinced the New York Commissioner of Highways to construct an experimental section of highway near New Paltz, New York, using one sack of Rosendale to six sacks of synthetic cement, and it was proved a success and for decades the Rosendale-synthetic cement blend became common use in highway and bridge construction.

Stressed ribbon bridge s, like this one in Maldonado, Uruguay, also follow a catenary curve, with cables embedded in a rigid deck.

Motorists must traverse one of three at-grade routes to connect from the Bayshore Freeway to the bridge.

Above deck, one or more quick-firing guns were mounted in the bows, in front of the bridge ; several more were mounted amidships and astern.