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Página 48
... structure was unmistakably entering its decadence . It ceased to be a fashionable place to live . The houses were falling into disrepair and bringing smaller rents to the Bridge House Estates , thus placing more and more of the burden ...
... structure was unmistakably entering its decadence . It ceased to be a fashionable place to live . The houses were falling into disrepair and bringing smaller rents to the Bridge House Estates , thus placing more and more of the burden ...
Página 128
... structure itself . " The idea of the bridge's being weakened by " low temperatures or from crystallization or dis- integration of the structure of the iron from repeated strains , " the News dismissed as unworthy of serious ...
... structure itself . " The idea of the bridge's being weakened by " low temperatures or from crystallization or dis- integration of the structure of the iron from repeated strains , " the News dismissed as unworthy of serious ...
Página 184
... structure , the Wheeling Suspension Bridge , has been swept from its strongholds by a terrific storm . About 3 o'clock yesterday we walked toward the Suspension Bridge and went upon it , as we have frequently done , enjoying the cool ...
... structure , the Wheeling Suspension Bridge , has been swept from its strongholds by a terrific storm . About 3 o'clock yesterday we walked toward the Suspension Bridge and went upon it , as we have frequently done , enjoying the cool ...
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How Bridges Were Invented | 1 |
The Mighty Roman Arch | 7 |
The Engineer Vanishes from Europe but Appears in Asia | 19 |
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Abutment American Ammann anchorage army bedrock bridge engineering bridge-building bridge's British Brooklyn Bridge building built cables caisson canal cantilever Captain carried century Civil Engineers Colonel completed construction covered bridge cross deck DeLisio Eads's East famous feet ferry Figure fire Firth Firth of Tay foundations four French Galloping Gertie George Henry High Girders hundred inches Island James Eads John Rennie John Roebling later loading locomotive London Bridge long-span Louis Bridge main span masonry Menai Menai Strait miles Mississippi modern named Niagara Othmar H Paris Perronet piers piles Pont Pont-Neuf pontoons problem rail railroad bridge Remagen Rennie Rialto river road roadway Robert Stephenson Roebling's semicircular shore side steel Steinman stone arch stood Strait stream structure suspension bridge suspension span Telford Thomas Bouch timber tion took tower traffic train truss tube tunnel Washington Roebling Wheeling wind wire York