The Brooklyn Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge‚ originally known as the East River Bridge‚ is a bridge in New York City that spans over the East River. It is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. This is the only bridge that connects the borough of Brooklyn to its sister‚ Manhattan. This bridge‚ with a huge span of 486.3m‚ was the longest suspension bridge in the world until 1903. Not only was it the longest‚ but it was the very first steel-wire suspension bridge in America.
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responsible for breaking our bridge. There were compression forces on top of the bridge and tension forces under the bridge. Most of our bridge’s base was suspended in midair‚ and we could have fixed that by extending the length of the bridge. That way‚ all the rods and connectors under compression would have the table as support. Also‚ after the bridge collapsed‚ we realized that one of the connectors was loose and it broke into two. If we were to build this bridge again‚ we would check all of the
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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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‘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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------------------------------------------------- Bixby Creek Bridge Bixby Creek Bridge‚ also known as Bixby Bridge‚ is a reinforced concrete open-spandrel arch bridge in Big Sur‚ California. The bridge is located 120 miles (190 km) south of San Francisco and 13 miles (21 km) south of Carmel in Monterey County along California Highway One. Prior to the opening of the bridge in 1932‚ residents of the Big Sur area were virtually cut off during winter due to the often impassable Old Coast Road that
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Positive Description: One of the greatest things in the world is sitting down at the table and seeing a huge plate piled with Spaghetti. When it is cooking‚ it easily fills the house with the scent of warm tomatoes and other Italian spices. There are so many different ways to make spaghetti sauce‚ but the best of all is a homemade recipe passed down through generations of Italians. However‚ the actual noodle plays a big role in the scrumptious dish. When these pale‚ yellowish noodles are done cooking
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basic types of bridges‚ two of them are the arch and beam bridge. Of the first type the form of the load-bearing structure or its actual shape is convex. The load of an arch bridge is carried outward along the curve of the arch to the abutments at each ends. These abutments or supports carry the load and keeps the ends of the bridge from spreading out. Arch bridges can be divided into two major types‚ the old and the modern arch bridges. Under the first types are the Corbel arch bridges and the Aqueducts
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kinds of noodles but my favourite is spaghetti. Thus‚ it is no great surprise that my favourite dish is Spaghetti Bolognese. I love this dish because of its great taste. Whenever my aunt cooked this special dish‚ I could easily wolf down three generous platefuls of it. As I slurped up the spaghetti‚ smudges of sauces would smear all over my mouth and chin. More often than not‚ my shirt ended up wearing a liberal dose of my meal. Once‚ I tried cooking Spaghetti Bolognese at school. The ingredients
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The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest and most iconic bridges in the world this majestic bridge is located in New York City‚ New York. In 1853‚ the only way to get from Brooklyn to New York City was by ferry boat. John Roebling‚ a famous bridge builder‚ was on a ferry stuck between ice chunks in the middle of winter. He set out to design and build a bridge connecting these two cities. Building the Brooklyn Bridge would not be an easy undertaking. The bridge would need to be high enough
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A View from the Bridge - Notes “Just remember‚ kid‚ you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.” Eddie speaks this quote in Act I‚ while eating dinner with Beatrice and Catherine. This quote reveals the irony and madness of Eddie’s character. In the beginning of the play‚ Eddie tells the story of a young boy who called immigration on his relatives. Eddie lectures Catherine about how they must tell no one about Marco and Rodolpho‚ the illegal immigrant
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