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Five workers died during the construction of the bridge: [39] Diver Frank Pepper ascended too quickly from a depth of 140 feet (43 m) on September 16, 1954. Despite being rushed to a decompression chamber , the 46-year-old died from the bends .
During the construction of the Mackinac Bridge from 1954 to 1957, the Mackinaw would clear away ice floes piling up against the massive caissons surrounding the bridge piers being constructed. This allowed the foundations of the bridge to settle into place undisturbed during the winter.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge had a width-to-span ratio of 1 to 72, while the proposed Mackinac design had an even more extreme width-to-span ratio of 1 to 92. [8] It wasn't until Steinman took into account what was learned at Tacoma and brought on Woodruff as a design engineer that the Mackinac Bridge was finally built starting in 1954.
By the mid-1930s Steinman had a professional reputation as one of the pre-eminent bridge engineers of the US, especially for long span suspension bridges, but his bridges were eclipsed in the public eye by his old rival Ammann's George Washington Bridge (1931) and by Joseph Strauss's Golden Gate Bridge (1937) among others. His plans for a NYC ...
A two-month repaving project on the Mackinac Bridge is expected to reduce traffic to one lane in each direction and lead to traffic backups and delays, especially during the weekends, the Mackinac ...
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927 novel): An Inca rope bridge in Peru collapses, with the resulting deaths forming the basis for the novel's plot. The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952 novel) and its 1957 film adaptation The Bridge on the River Kwai : The building and destruction of the eponymous bridge form the basis of the plot.
A new survey ranks Michigan's Mighty Mac among the nation's top 10 most scenic bridges. The Mackinac Bridge ranked seventh nationwide, falling within the top 10 of a 100-bridge ranking.
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