* 1911-The vital swing bridge is built in the Hooker Valley

The hinged bridge would swing onto enemy vessels with a sharp spike and stop them.

* El Ferdan Railway Bridge () north of Ismailia () was completed in 2001 and is the longest swing span bridge in the world, with a span of 340 m ( 1100 ft ).

Ogden designed the first swing bridge over the Chicago River and donated the land for Rush Medical Center.

The Brownsville & Matamoros International Bridge is a large swing bridge that dates back to 1910 and is still in use today by automobiles and railroad trains, connecting Brownsville, Texas with Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

The Ponte Girevole ( swing bridge ), built in 1887, runs across the navigable ship canal that joins Mar Piccolo ( Little Sea ) with Mar Grande ( Big Sea ) and stretches along 89. 9 meters or 294. 95 ft.

* Rock Island Swing Bridge, also known as the Newport Rail Bridge, an old swing bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minnesota

It was located near the present swing bridge although little is left.

The bridge itself was built in 1773 of Portland stone with a Dutch type timber raised platform which was replaced in 1892 with an iron swing bridge.

The sustainable transport charity Sustrans has proposed the construction of a bicycle and pedestrian swing bridge from Rotherhithe to Canary Wharf, and cost-benefit and feasibility studies were undertaken.

A lock gate and swing bridge ( disused ) still exists beside the River Thames over the canal.

At Somerleyton the Lowestoft to Norwich railway line crosses the Waveney on a swing bridge, while at St. Olaves, the Haddiscoe Cut branches off left to connect the Rivers Yare and Waveney.

Near St Mary's church Church of England, Ferrygate Lane leads to Martham Ferry, where an unusual floating swing bridge crosses the River Thurne.

The River Waveney runs along the edge of Somerleyton giving access to the Broads and visitors may find the rail swing bridge which crosses the river in Somerleyton of interest.

The peninsula and Rutherford Island are connected by a swing bridge, one of only three in Maine, which spans " The Gut.

The central span, a swing bridge, connects the two islands as well as allowing boats and ships passage to the upper harbor.

US 6 leaves the city toward Cape Cod over the New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge, a swing truss bridge, and the Popes Island Bridge.

Image: Ontonagon Michigan swing bridge. jpg | The former swing bridge over the Ontonagon River in Ontonagon ( now removed ).

The demolition was necessary for the construction of the provincial road ( Mayor Of Sonweg ) from Amstelveen to Schiphol, with a swing bridge over the circular canal of the Haarlemmermeer.

A swing bridge over the Grand River operated from 1871 until 1881 when it was abandoned in favor of another line.

The Great Northern swing bridge crossing the Steamboat River, built in 1915, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The ship will seek a location which is sufficiently protected ; has suitable holding ground, enough depth at low tide and enough room for the boat to swing.

In the bow and stern technique, an anchor is set off each the bow and the stern, which can severely limit a vessel's swing range and also align it to steady wind, current or wave conditions.

The vessel will now swing in the middle of two anchors, which is acceptable in strong reversing currents, but a wind perpendicular to the current may break out the anchors, as they are not aligned for this load.

If a pitcher throws 100 pitches at which batters swing, and the batters fail to make contact on 26 of them, the pitcher's whiff rate is 26 %.

The problem was exacerbated by the orders to only anchor at the bow, which allowed the ships to swing with the wind and widened the gaps.

Brown added twin fiddles, tenor banjo and slap bass, pointing the music in the direction of swing, which they played on local radio and at dancehalls.

" But the 1966 national assembly elections showed a significant swing to the right, and General Lon Nol formed a new government, which lasted until 1967.

African American dances are those dances which have developed within African American communities in everyday spaces, rather than in dance studios, schools or companies and its derivatives, tap dance, disco, jazz dance, swing dance, hip hop dance and breakdance.

record collection ) where they danced to American swing music, which a DJ played on a single turntable when a jukebox was not available.

It is basically a double-leaved door with large glass panels in each door leaf, and in which the doors can swing both out as well as in.

This is in contrast to the meter of most swing music, which has a 4 count basic rhythm.

Arden's quick wit made her a natural talent for radio ; she became a regular on Danny Kaye's short-lived but memorably zany comedy-variety show in 1946, which also featured swing bandleader Harry James and gravel-voiced character actor-comedian Lionel Stander.

A common outcome following radioiodine is a swing from hyperthyroidism to the easily treatable hypothyroidism, which occurs in 78 % of those treated for Graves ' thyrotoxicosis and in 40 % of those with toxic multinodular goiter or solitary toxic adenoma.

At the age of 19, in the cathedral of Pisa, he timed the oscillations of a swinging lamp by means of his pulse beats and found the time for each swing to be the same, no matter what the amplitude of the oscillation, thus discovering the isochronal nature of the pendulum, which he verified by experiment.

The primary constraint on additional handle length is the lack of space in which to swing the hammer.

This difference can be largely attributed to a back injury which limited Botham's bowling pace and his ability to swing the ball.

Berendt defines jazz as a " form of art music which originated in the United States through the confrontation of blacks with European music "; he argues that jazz differs from European music in that jazz has a " special relationship to time, defined as ' swing '", " a spontaneity and vitality of musical production in which improvisation plays a role "; and " sonority and manner of phrasing which mirror the individuality of the performing jazz musician ".

Reformers hoped that the women's vote, in which New Zealand was a pioneer, would swing the balance, but the women were not as well organized as in other countries.

Galileo discovered the key property that makes pendulums useful timekeepers: isochronism, which means that the period of swing of a pendulum is approximately the same for different sized swings.

Radio stations that made white and black forms of music available to both groups, the development and spread of the gramophone record, and African American musical styles such as jazz and swing which were taken up by white musicians, aided this process of " cultural collision ".

Extra weight in pail pulls cord ( I ), which opens and lights automatic lighter ( J ), setting off skyrocket ( K ), which causes sickle ( L ) to cut string ( M ) and allow the pendulum with the attached napkin to swing back and forth, thereby wiping chin.

However, the limited transmission speed, relatively large voltage swing, and large standard connectors motivated development of the universal serial bus, which has displaced RS-232 from most of its peripheral interface roles.