THE FORTH BRIDGE Steel cantilever; the largest bridge in the world The two main spans are 1700 feet each. Carries two railway tracks; completed 1890. Edinburgh, Scotland from the Article EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION. By Gustav Lindenthal. from The Engineering Magazine Devoted to Industrial Progress Volume XV 1898 The Engineering Magazine Co The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles (14 kilometres) west of central Edinburgh. Completed in 1890

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