. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . .- 1907 A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock Vol. XX. Suspension Bridges. TIic suspuMsioii priiuiiile, .is applii-dti) l)ridgcs, liki. .I f^i\;tl \- ntlurthings with «hiili \vc ;in,- lolcralilyfamiliar, is not new, but when it takestlic form of a railway bridge and a car-riage road bridge in the same structure, 136 Liberty Street, New York, May, 1907 No. 5 bridge builders, John A. Roeblings smaller ropes, and covered with bam- .Sons Company, of Trentim. X. J., t
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . .- 1907 A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock Vol. XX. Suspension Bridges. TIic suspuMsioii priiuiiile, .is applii-dti) l)ridgcs, liki. .I f^i\;tl \- ntlurthings with «hiili \vc ;in,- lolcralilyfamiliar, is not new, but when it takestlic form of a railway bridge and a car-riage road bridge in the same structure, 136 Liberty Street, New York, May, 1907 No. 5 bridge builders, John A. Roeblings smaller ropes, and covered with bam- .Sons Company, of Trentim. X. J., tn l)oo. One of these bridges had a span ulmni we are indebted for tlie pliDtDf^ra- of 22$ ft., and was sufficiently strong \iire from which our engraving of the to permit loaded animals being driven Niagara bridge was made. over it. Suspension bridges, as we have said. The suspension bridge shown in our .ire not new, and several curious ex- frontispiece this month is the road it is certainly entitled to be called a aniplcs of this form of road bridge bridirc 5i)annine the -trait, •.vlirh. KDAD ii\KK IHb. .\U-.\.\I .-^ IN \V.\LES. bold and ilaring piece of a Isridge was opened for trafficover the Niagara River in 1855. Itunited the village, generally called inthose days Suspension Bridge, N. Y.,with the town of Clifton, in UpperCanada. The engineer, whose name isinseparably associated with this greatwork, was John A. Roebling. thefounder of the well-known firm of were once in existence on the ancientpublic highways of Peru. A bridge ofthis kind on one of the mountain roadsin that country was made from ma-terials which the workmans hand foundready for use on the ground. Thecables were of twisted osiers, passedover wooden supports, and reachingfrom bank to bank. These primitivecables were bound together with is the narrow body of water separatingthe island of Anglesea from roadway is 100 ft. above waterlevel at high t
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