Suspension-bridge Sentence Examples

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It is situated on the Findhorn, which sweeps past the town and is crossed by a suspension bridge about a mile to the W., 11 m.

Devorgilla's bridge, below it, built of stone in 1280, originally consisted of nine arches (now reduced to three), and is reserved in spite of its massive appearance for foot passengers only, as is also the suspension bridge opened in 1875.

At the foot of Tasgaon Hill it is crossed by a suspension bridge.

Nevertheless, the stiffened suspension bridge will probably be the type adopted in future for very great spans.

Below Bristol the valley becomes the Clifton Gorge, famous for its wooded cliffs and for the Clifton suspension bridge which bestrides it.

The river is crossed by a stone bridge, by a suspension bridge for foot-passengers, and by a fine canalbridge, carrying the lateral canal.

This is a suspension bridge with a central portion, between two lofty and massive stone towers, consisting of bascules which can be raised by hydraulic machinery to admit the passage of vessels.

Shin-sai Bashi Suji, the principal thoroughfare, leads from Kitahama, the district lying on the south side of the Tosabori, to the iron suspension bridge (Shin-sai Bashi) over the Dotom-bori.

The suspension bridge dispenses with the compression member required in girders and with a good deal of the stiffening required in metal arches.

The defect of the suspension bridge is its flexibility.

Some suspension bridges have broken down in consequence of the oscillations produced by bodies of men marching in step. In 1850 a suspension bridge cable was carried on a separate saddle on rollers on each pier.

Brunel constructed the towers and abutments for a suspension bridge of 702 ft.

The supporting structure is a cable suspension bridge with stiffening girders.

The piers require to be carried above the platform, and their design must be modified according to the type of suspension bridge adopted.

In any stiffened suspension bridge the action of the pier will be analogous to that of a pier between two arches.

The value of H is equal to the maximum tension on the bottom flange, or compression on the top flange, of a girder of equal span, equally and similarly loaded, and having a depth equal to the dip of the suspension bridge.

The river is here crossed by three bridges; the (upper) steel arch bridge, built (1895) on the site of the former suspension bridge (built in 1869; blown down in 1889; rebuilt as a suspension bridge) near the Falls, is crossed by double carriageways and footpaths and by an electric railway, and is probably the longest bridge of the kind in the world, being 1240 ft.

In 1892 the village of Suspension Bridge (formerly Niagara City) was joined with it under a city charter, which has been frequently amended.

The river is crossed by a suspension bridge as well as.

A curious chain suspension bridge across the Merrimac, connecting Newburyport with Amesbury, was built in 1827, replacing a similar bridge built in 1810, which was one of the first suspension bridges in America.

The Esk is crossed by a three-arched stone bridge, uniting the old town on the left bank with the new on the right, and a suspension bridge.

The suspension bridge carries the Holyhead road from Bangor.

The other suspension bridge is the Schwurplatz bridge, completed in 1903, 56 ft.

When of one cable, called the taravita, the passenger and his luggage are drawn across in a rude kind of basket suspended from it; but when two or more cables are used, transverse sticks of bamboo and reeds are laid upon them, forming a rude prototype of the regular suspension bridge.

Beaucaire is situated on the right bank of the Rhone, opposite Tarascon, with which it is connected by two handsome bridges, a suspension-bridge of four spans and 1476 ft.

A suspension bridge crosses the Ohio river here.

Old Hammersmith Bridge, designed by Tierney Clark (1824), was the earliest suspension bridge erected near London.

A suspension bridge leads over the river to Villeneuveles-Avignon, and a little higher up, a picturesque ruined bridge of the 12th century, the Pont Saint-Benezet, projects into the stream.

The men dressed in superhero costumes climbed the suspension bridge on 2nd February, now face charges for public nuisance.

We must cross a suspension bridge that can be quite nerve-racking but our partners have crossed it many times!

Recently I was in Montrose to see the 70-year-old concrete suspension bridge which is the only access from the south.

Great-billed Heron - seen twice btw 6 - 6.30pm NR suspension bridge at DVFC.

At Chushul there is an iron chain-and-rope suspension bridge over the deepest part of the river, but it does not completely span the river, and it is too insecure for use.

Within two miles of the Falls is a wonderful suspension bridge.

Great-billed Heron - seen twice btw 6 - 6.30pm nr suspension bridge at DVFC.

A walk down the zig zag path just below the suspension bridge brings you to Hotwells - the entrance to Bristol 's Floating Harbor.

The Golden Gate Bridge, the symbol of San Francisco, was the longest suspension bridge in the world when it opened in 1937.

Research showed that a suspension bridge was the best way to increase traffic between San Francisco and the northern counties.

The Golden Gate Bridge is a 4,200 foot suspension bridge that connects the south shore of Marin County with the northern tip the San Francisco peninsula and San Francisco County.

The height of the bridge (calculated by using the mean water height of the San Francisco Bay) is 220 feet.When construction was completed on the bridge in 1937, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world.

Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge, which opened in 1998, is the longest suspension bridge in the world today with a length of 6,532 feet.

When you look out over the ocean and see that elegant suspension bridge spanning the mouth of the San Francisco Bay, it seems like nature intended that the Golden Gate Bridge be exactly as long as it is.

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge.

The cables, towers, anchorages, deck and deck truss all work in concert on a suspension bridge.

Did you know that the construction of a suspension bridge is such that it can span the longest distance of any bridge type?

Two bridges, one of them a suspension-bridge, communicate with St Aubin on the opposite bank of the Seine, and steamboats ply regularly to Rouen.

The Weser is here crossed by an iron suspension bridge 830 ft.