Cleveland's golden story; a chronicle of hearts that hoped, minds that planned and hands that toiled, to make a city "great and glorious," . r and bridgebuilder, recognized the weakness of the woodenbridges. King built a number of bridges of irongirders. He was the inventor of the iron bridgeadopted in railroad construction. King had theco-operation of Amasa Stone, railroad engineerand contractor. Bridges made on the King planhave been shipped and re-assembled in everypart of the world. To demonstrate its supremacy as a bridgebuilder, Cleveland has erected one of the largest 64 Clevelands gold
Cleveland's golden story; a chronicle of hearts that hoped, minds that planned and hands that toiled, to make a city "great and glorious," . r and bridgebuilder, recognized the weakness of the woodenbridges. King built a number of bridges of irongirders. He was the inventor of the iron bridgeadopted in railroad construction. King had theco-operation of Amasa Stone, railroad engineerand contractor. Bridges made on the King planhave been shipped and re-assembled in everypart of the world. To demonstrate its supremacy as a bridgebuilder, Cleveland has erected one of the largest 64 Clevelands golden story concrete spans in the world. The high level bridgeis five hundred and forty feet long. It is the mas-terpiece of the King Bridge Company. Fourmillion dollars were here expended on the highlevel structure to save the laborious and un-necessary travel down to the flats and across thesmall bridges over the river and up the hills. Asgraceful as the arch of a rainbow, it typifies forall time the unity, co-operation and strengthof Cleveland and of the old community of theWestern Reserve. CHAPTER VIICLEVELAND THE CRADLE OF INVENTION. CLEVELANDS GOLDEN STORY CHAPTER VIICLEVELAND THE CRADLE OF INVENTION T is a world-old belief that artists arenot practical. But when the aestheticmind is wedded to the scientific, it ac-complishes great things. Leonardo DaVinci could do more things well than
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