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The Belfast truss is a cross between Town's lattice truss and the bowstring truss. It was developed in Ireland as a wide-span shallow rise roof truss for industrial structures. McTear & Co of Belfast, Ireland began fabricating these trusses in wood starting around 1866. By 1899, spans of 24 metres (79 ft) had been achieved, and in the 20th ...
The North Fork Solomon River Lattice Truss Bridge, now located on a golf course just southeast of Norton County, Kansas, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 [1] when at its original location on a road near Lenora, Kansas, [2] and its registration was updated in 2008 to address its relocation.
The West Cornwall Covered Bridge (an earlier incarnation was known as the Hart Bridge) is a wooden covered lattice truss bridge carrying the Sharon-Goshen Turnpike over the Housatonic River in the town of Cornwall, Connecticut. Records indicate that a bridge may have been in place in this location as early as 1762.
The Norwottuck Rail Trail Bridge is an eight-span steel lattice truss bridge. It crosses Elwell Island in the middle of the river, providing no access to the island in an attempt to keep the island otherwise untouched. Riding over the bridge shows eight spans, with two of them over Elwell Island. It was built by the R. F. Hawkins Ironworks ...
Town's lattice truss patent drawing. On January 28, 1820, Town was granted a patent for a wooden lattice truss bridge, which became known as the Town Bridge.The design was of great importance because it could be built quickly by relatively unskilled workers from readily available material.
A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements, usually forming triangular units.The connected elements, typically straight, may be stressed from tension, compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads.
Darcy Lever lattice girder railway bridge, Lancashire, England. Laced vertical struts and diagonal ties on the cantilever portion of the now-demolished eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge) A lattice girder is a truss girder where the load is carried by a web of latticed metal. [1]
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