The New York City Skyline is flooded with amazing landmarks and works of engineering magic. People who live in this great city may go back and forth across their home without even giving these wonders a second thought. To everyone else it is a city of never ending symbols of what man can do. Where did it all begin? The Modern New York had to begin at some event. In the eyes of many it was the construction of the "Great Bridge-. The monumental scale of structural steel that had never been done before. The Brooklyn Bridge. .
The Brooklyn Bridge is considered a brilliant feat of 19th-century engineering, and was a bridge of many firsts. It was the first suspension bridge to use steel for its cable wire. It was also the first bridge to use explosives in an underwater device called a caisson. The 3,460-foot Brooklyn Bridge dominated the competition and was the longest suspension bridge in the world. It has since been beat out, but it definitely had its day. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/brooklyn.html. October 25, 2002) .
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The bridge publicly opened on May the 24th, 1883, at 2:00 p.m. A grand total of 150,300 people made the journey over the bridge on opening day. For a sign of the times in which this bridge was built in, each person going across was charged one whole cent. Don't think the vehicles were left out because they hit the pavement of the newly opened bridge just three hours later at 5:00 p.m. that same day in May 1883. A total of 1,800 vehicles crossed before the close of the evening. The one cent charge was probably rough on the people, but vehicles were charged a whopping five cents to cross. Seems like 1,800 vehicles was a fairly high total for a bridge in 1883, but it is nothing compared to today's world. As of now, the Brooklyn Bridge is the second busiest bridge in New York City.
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The Tower and The Bridge The Tower and The Bridge is a very intresting book about structural engineering and opinions about it form an engineer named David Billington. ... His eoldest surviving bridge called the Craigellachie Bridge in 1814. ... He made his bridges aesthetic,and he thought that only a very skillfull ironmaster could work on his bridges. ... He did the Niagra River Bridge in 1855, the Cincinnati bridge in 1866, and his last project was the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. ... He did die before the bridge was finished, but his son finished the bridge before Eiffel finished...
Expansion The replacement bridge was expanded from the original bridge according to the "South Dakota Bridge System Code Manual - 1998 Edition- obtained from the SDDOT. The replacement bridge was then extended to span 120 ft. as compared to the original length of 90 ft. All design of the bridge girders and deck is based on the 120 ft expansion. ... Bridge Type The design of this structure is for a continuous span, prestressed concrete I-Beam girder bridge with a continuous reinforced concrete deck and a New Jersey barrier. ... The width of the bridge is 38 ft from outside edge to o...
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History of Bridges History of Bridges Although bridges often go unnoticed, their function is essential to modern America. ... These rope bridges were the fore- runners of modern suspension bridges. ... This bridge is a combination of the arch, truss, and suspension bridges. ... Cantilever bridges are a type of truss bridge. ... This type of bridge is used extensively for railroad bridges. ...
These new rail bridges had to low, flat and strong. ... Anthony Bonzano of the bridge company told General Kane that they would "build you a bridge a thousand feet high if you'll provide the money."" ... The second bridge I will talk about is the Forth Railway Bridge, across Scotland's Firth of Forth. ... In 1806 the idea of building a bridge was put forward. ... The problem here was that most bridges that spanned this distance were suspension bridges, but it was obvious that in this case a suspension bridge would not be adequate. ...
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Bridges have come a long way since their early history. ... As a result, protection was added to the bridges. Wood trusses and joints were now protected as a result of the new type of bridge called the covered bridge. ... It is the longest covered bridge. ... The covered bridge might not be the greatest of bridges now, but it helped in the transportation of many things in the past. ...