The collapse of the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge stunned everyone‚ especially engineers. How could the most "modern" suspension bridge‚ with the most advanced design‚ suffer catastrophic failure in a relatively light wind? The State of Washington‚ the insurance companies‚ and the United States government appointed boards of experts to investigate the collapse of the Narrows Bridge. The Federal Works Administration (FWA) appointed a 3-member panel of top-ranking engineers: Othmar Amman‚ Dr. Theodore
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Coca-Cola – The Bridge to Success The Coca-Cola company has developed a unique program aimed at stimulating growth for startups in their early stages of growth. Through this program‚ called "The Bridge"‚ Coca-Cola wanted to see how they could most effectively integrate new technologies by inviting top innovators like Screemo to participate. Over the past three years "The Bridge" Program has reached out to over 600 companies‚ of which 150 were interviewed and only 30 of which were invited to participate
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chose to research the 130th Street Bridge‚ built in 1949 and is located in Cook County‚ Illinois over the Calumet River. The 130th Street Bridge is a polygonal Warren through truss with connections. You can tell it is a Warren truss bridge because it has thick diagonal members and verticals and its form of triangular shapes. This bridge is unique because it is a movable bridge and it is one of the most historic bridges in Chicago‚ Illinois. It is the largest truss bridge ever to be moved into place after
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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate‚ the opening of the San Francisco bay into the Pacific Ocean. The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge span in the world when it was completed in 1937‚ and has become one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco‚ California‚ and of the United States‚ San Francisco’s city engineer estimated the cost at $100 million‚ impractical for the time‚ and fielded the question to bridge engineers of whether
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out was the unique “Triangle Bridge Over Water” sculpture. This art was created by Dan Graham in 1990. Dan Graham was born on March 21‚ 1942 in Urbana‚ Illinois (Jeannette 1). As an artist his main works focused on video art‚ mirrors‚ and architecture. Which some of these focuses can be especially brought out in the “Triangle Bridge Over Water” work. One example of this is the architecture of the bridge. There is an art and science behind how the design of the bridge was laid out. It had to be sturdy
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In The Bridge of San Luis Rey‚ the characters learn that selfless love is the true form of love. The three middle sections of the novel describe the lives of the bridge collapse victims: “The Marquesa de Montemayor”‚ “Uncle Pio”‚ and “Esteban”. These characters each have their own hindrances with love‚ but before their deaths‚ they overcome their problems and learn selfless love. Literary critic M.C. Kuner writes that “every type of love is scrutinized in [The Bridge of San Luis Rey]. All are‚ in
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The bridge to San Luis Rey is a tragic story where all of the main characters are unaware that when they die‚ they will all have something in common. All of the people walking across the bridge that day had the choice to go where they were going when they attempted to cross the bridge. No one made them but they had the free will to do so. As brother Juniper was studying the lives of these five people‚ he thought that it was important to compare and contrast each of their lives and everything that
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da Vinci designed a 240 meters bridge it would have been the longest bridge in the world. His plan was ambitious. In 1502‚ a skeptical sultan rejected Leonardo’s design as impossible‚ but 300 years civilization finally embraced the engineering principle - arches as supports - underlying the construction. The bridge has been constructed‚ in Norway. Now instead of spanning the Bosporus ‚ his visionary creation was destined to span 500 years as a bridge to another millennium. Vebjorn
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His threat was he wanted to tear down the old bridge. Peyton was taken from his family in Alabama to the old bridge. Due to him wanting to tear down that bridge he getting ready to be killed by getting hung below the bridge. “He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts upon his wife and children.”(Pg. 2/6 Ambrose Bierce) Peyton had thoughts about his wife before he was hanged
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‘West Gate Bridge’ is described as being a gigantic monitor lizard poised in an elongated ‘S’ astride the River Yarra linking Melbourne’s Western suburbs with Eastern Victorian suburbs between Central Business District as imagined by Carmel Egan‚ a fine journalist. (Brown‚ 2002) 1. An Analysis of the Project’s Structure and Management: 1.1 Project Structure: The West Gate Bridge in Melbourne was going to be‚ undoubtedly‚ the largest bridge of Australia‚ with four lanes in each direction
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