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  3. MANY FAMOUS BRIDGES

    The particulars of the mammoth structure that spans Sydney Harbor are fresh in the minds of the majority of Australians, and it is needless to recapitulate ...

    Article : 97 words
  4. OVER THE DELAWARE.

    A bridge across the Delaware River, U.S.A., joining Philadelphia and Camden, has a entre span being 1750ft with a clearance of 135ft above high water. Its ...

    Article : 145 words
  5. COLLAPSE OF QUEBEC BRIDGE.

    Another construction of great note attended with disasters was that of the Quebec bridge. In 1902 the pier by, the southern shore was completed, and the ...

    Article : 158 words
  6. KILL VAN KULL BRIDGE.

    The Kill Van Kull bridge spans the water between Staten Island (New York) and New Jersey. It resembles the Sydney bridge in that it is a single span from ...

    Article : 105 words
  7. ZAMBESI SPANNED.

    One of the world's most wonderful bridges is a steel span across a great chasm just below the Victoria Falls on the Zambesi River, in the heart of ...

    Article : 182 words
  8. LARGEST SUSPENSION BRIDGE.

    New York and New Jersey joined hands across the Hudson in October, when a great suspension bridge, with a stretch between the two, towers, of 3500 feet, or ...

    Article : 148 words
  9. ANOTHER EFFORT FRUSTRATED.

    Work recommended in 1909. The, piers were demolished, and the crumpled steel cleared away. At the end of the 1915 season (the working season was a little ...

    Article : 231 words
  10. NIAGARA FALLS.

    A bridge that aroused much interest in its construction is one of those at Niagara Falls, which was completed in 1925 to replace an old one that was unable ...

    Article : 87 words
  11. BROOKLYN BRIDGE.

    The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge across East River, New York, has a 1593ft. 6in. span. It was begun at the end of the seventies, and was opened in 1883. In ...

    Article : 251 words
  12. GRAND CANYON.

    A bridge built under extraordinary diffculties spans the Grand Canyon in Arizona, U.S.A., at a height of 475ft above the water, and is said to be the ...

    Article : 319 words
  13. THE FORTH BRIDGE.

    One of the world's great br[?]ges, the Forth Bridge, is on the same-principle as the Queh[?]e Bridge--cantilever, with suspended bridges between the cage-like ...

    Article : 328 words
  14. JOINING CANADA AND U.S.A.

    Prior to the opening of the Hudson River bridge the largest suspension bridge was the Ambassador Bridge, which joins Canada, to the United States across ...

    Article : 67 words
  15. THE TYNE BRIDGE.

    Among recently built bridges is one across the Tyne at Newcastle, England. This is similar to the Sydney Harbor Bridge, but much smaller, though the arch ...

    Article : 121 words
  16. N.S.W. BRIDGES.

    One of the best known railway bridges in New South Wales is that spanning the Hawkesbury. It consists of seven spans of 416ft each, the foundations of the ...

    Article : 529 words
  17. MELBOURNE'S BRIDGES.

    Melbourne has five bridges across the Yarra. The present Princes Bridge was built in 1885, Queens Bridge in 1887, and Anderson street Bridge in 1899. In 1924 ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 98 words
  18. FRENCH CONCRETE BRIDGE.

    Concrete has made rapid advances during the last few years and has come into use for bridge construction. A fine example is the Elorn River Bridge near ...

    Article : 146 words
  19. GREATEST BRIDGE IN THE WORLD.

    The Forth Bridge is considered by engineers to be the greatest bridge in the world. Construction was cummenced in 1883 with the laving out of land and the ...

    Article : 178 words
  20. TAY BRIDGE DISASTER.

    One of the worst catastrophes in connection with bridge work, from which much, was learned, was the collapse off the bridge spanning the Firth of Tay, near ...

    Article : 97 words
  21. QUEENSLAND BRIDGES.

    There are a number of bridges considerable dimensions in Queensland. The Victoria Bridge, connecting Brisbane with the suburb of South Brisbane ...

    Article : 312 words
  22. Sketch Map-- of-- CITY OF GRAFTON--

    TONN OF SOUTH GRAFTON ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  23. THE TOWER BRIDGE.

    The Tower Bridge, London, is the most famous of all the lifting bridges--the largest in the world of its kind. It took eight years to construct, being opened in ...

    Article : 144 words
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