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Measuring 2,375 feet (724 m) long and towering 240 feet (73.15 m) when measured from the creek bed (300 feet (91.44 m) from bedrock), it was the largest concrete structure in the world when completed in 1915 [3] and still merited "the title of largest concrete bridge in America, if not the world" 50 years later.
Mills Darden (October 7, 1799 – January 23, 1857 [1]) was an American who became famous as one of the largest men ever in human history.His enormous size both in terms of his body weight and height made him one of the biggest humans to have ever lived.
Some bridges are measured from the beginning of the entrance ramp to the end of the exit ramp. Some are measured from shoreline to shoreline. Yet others use the length of the total construction involved in building the bridge. Since there is no standard, no ranking of a bridge should be assumed because of its position in the list.
This list ranks the world's cable-stayed bridges by the length of main span, i.e. the distance between the suspension towers. The length of the main span is the most common way to rank cable-stayed bridges. If one bridge has a longer span than another, it does not mean that the bridge is the longer from shore to shore, or from anchorage to ...
The Gothic combination railroad station and hotel operated until 1938 and was torn down in 1950. [ 9 ] When the Thomas Viaduct was completed, a 15-foot (5 m) obelisk with the names of the builder, directors of the railroad, the architect (engineer) and others associated with the viaduct was erected at the east end in Relay, by builder John ...
The two chords are 140 feet (43 m) apart at either shore of Hell Gate, narrowing to 40 feet (12 m) apart at the middle of the river. [42] [281] Each lower chord ranges in thickness from approximately 7 to 11 feet (2.1 to 3.4 m), [268] [282] and the thickest sections of the lower chord are divided into two compartments.
Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge 9.6, Bridge 8.8 and Bridge 5.1 (all 1906–08) Quebec Bridge (1907-1917) McKinley Bridge (1910) Celilo Bridge (1910) Crooked River Railroad Bridge (1911) Broadway Bridge (Portland, Oregon) (1913) Metropolis Bridge (1914) Harahan Bridge (1916) Metropolis Bridge (1917) Mears Memorial Bridge (1923)
This list of the longest arch bridge spans ranks the world's arch bridges by the length of their main span.The length of the main span is the most common way to rank bridges as it usually correlates with the engineering complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge. [1]