Sturdy and strong after more than a century of continuous use, the old covered, wooden bridge that spans the Tygartis Valley River at Philippi will have a distinctive part in the week-long observance of the first land battle of the Civil War at its home site, May 28th to June 3rd.

This covered, wooden bridge is so closely identified with the first action in the early morning of June 3, 1861, and with subsequent troop movements of both armies in the Philippi area that it has become a part and parcel of the war story.

The Chenoweth brothers were experienced bridge builders, and against the competition of other, and better known, bridge designers and builders they had constructed nine of the covered, wooden bridges on the Parkersburg and Staunton Turnpike a dozen years before, as well as many other bridges for several counties.

Board game with inlays of ivory, rock crystal and glass paste, covered with gold and silver leaf, on a wooden base ( Knossos, Minoan chronology | New Palace period 1600 – 1500 B. C., Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete )

The pop science TV program MythBusters attempted to model Archimedes ' feat by using mirrors to ignite a small wooden boat covered with tar, with only partial success — they found it too difficult to focus light from their hand-held mirrors onto a point small enough to ignite the boat.

Early fighters were very small and lightly armed by later standards, and most were biplanes built with a wooden frame, covered with fabric, and limited to about 100 mph.

alt = Man sitting with legs covered in boat that tapers to a point at each end holding long, pointed, wooden pole

These instruments often had bodies covered with animal skin, and it is unknown exactly when it became replaced with a wooden soundboard.

Most insulated buildings that utilize concrete block, brick, adobe, stone, veneers or some combination thereof feature interior insulation in the form of fiberglass batts between wooden wall studs or in the form of rigid insulation boards covered with plaster or drywall.

In addition wooden spears and tools were made in an area now covered in peat bog in the South East.

* Snow shoe – a wooden or leather piece which increases the area of ground covered by the shoe.

Players are equipped with a laminated wooden racket covered with rubber on one or two sides depending on the grip of the player.

She was later said to be responsible for decoding a warning that the Persian forces were about to invade Greece ; after Spartan generals could not decode a wooden tablet covered in wax, she ordered them to clear the wax, revealing the warning.

Many battering rams possessed curved or slanted wooden roofs and side-screens covered in protective materials, usually fresh wet hides, presumably skinned from animals eaten by the besiegers.

A water ramp consists of a wooden ramp covered with a special plastic mat that when lubricated with sprinklers allows an athlete to ski down the ramp towards a jump.

* Tinganes, the old part of town, it is still made up of small wooden houses covered with turf roofs.

Although sometimes carrying a spearman along with the charioteer ( driver ), such heavy proto-chariots, borne on solid wooden wheels and covered with skins, may have been part of the baggage train ( e. g., during royal funeral processions ) rather than vehicles of battle in themselves.

It consists of a conical wooden pipe covered in leather, is about 24 inches long, and has finger holes and a small horn or ivory mouthpiece.

It is built as a three storied structure with rammed mud walls and wooden doors, windows and roof covered with slates.

It covers an area of north to south by east to west, and housed around 100 people in five to seven groups of houses, each for an extended family, with sheds and barns, made of hazel and willow covered with reeds, and surrounded either permanently or at certain times by a wooden palisade.

The Chalice Well is a holy well at the foot of the Tor, covered by a wooden well-cover with wrought-iron decoration made in 1919.

In the early hours of August 15, just as the Foreign Legations were being relieved, the Empress Dowager, dressed in the padded blue cotton of a farm woman, the Emperor Guangxu, and a small retinue climbed into three wooden ox carts and escaped from the city covered with rough blankets.

The East Hancock neighborhood was formerly characterised by a number of deep ravines originally covered with wooden sidewalks that were filled in by the Dakota Heights Land Company ; the neighbourhood was then " subdivided into residential lots ".

wooden bodywork covered with leather-like material.

The canvas was applied to the wooden surface of the Pavise, covered with multiple layers of gesso and often richly painted in tempera technique.

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.

This chain bridge proved less durable than the wooden arch on the Salisbury end.

Ancus Marcius incorporated the Janiculum into the city, fortifying it with a wall and connecting it with the city by a wooden bridge across the Tiber, the Pons Sublicius.

In 1976 divers in the Aar found part of a seven-meter wide wooden bridge from the late Roman times.

The wooden bridge, dating from the Middle Ages, across the Aar was destroyed by floods three times in thirty years, and was replaced with a steel suspension bridge in 1851.

Truss bridge # Through_truss | Through truss bridge with steel girders and wooden carriageway

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.

Towards the right end they pass over a curved wooden bridge.

The traditional kantele has neither bridge nor nut, the strings run directly from the tuning pegs to a metal bar ( varras ) set into wooden brackets ( ponsi ).

In 1150, a wooden bridge was built across the Lahn.

A mandolin typically has a hollow wooden body with a tailpiece that holds one end of the strings, a floating bridge, a neck with a flat ( or slight radius ) fretted fingerboard, a nut, and mechanical tuning machines to accommodate metal strings.

They saw through the planks of his wooden bridge, making a precarious gap, then taunt him by making goat noises, until he runs outside.

To the east, a bridge connected Manama to Muharraq since 1929, a new causeway was built in 1941 which replaced the old wooden bridge.

Gerbert fled, pursued by the victim, who could trace the thief by the stars, but Gerbert was aware of the pursuit, and hid hanging from a wooden bridge, where, suspended between heaven and earth, he was invisible to the magician.

* Romans built a wooden bridge across the Thames in the London area.

He builds a strong flotilla of ships equipped with catapults and a wooden bridge across the river, which allows him to establish a foothold on the Parthian shore.

* 1250 – The Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy is converted from a pontoon bridge to a permanent, raised wooden structure.

European chronologies derived from wooden structures found it difficult to bridge the gap in the 14th century when there was a building hiatus which coincided with the Black Death.