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Chain Bridge (Budapest)
Chain bridges are suspension bridges built with chains. Some chain bridge built using this design have retained the name Chain Bridge. Thus as a proper noun, it may refer to: In Hungary: * Chain Bridge (Budapest), a bridge over the Danube in Budapest, Hungary (completed 1849) In Germany: * Chain Bridge (Nuremberg), a pedestrian bridge over the river Pegnitz in Nuremberg, Bavaria (opened 1924) In the United Kingdom: * Union Bridge (Tweed), a bridge over the River Tweed between England and Scotland (opened 1820) * Chain Bridge, a bridge over the River Usk in Monmouthshire, Wales (opened 1829) * Chain Bridge (Berwyn), a bridge over the River Dee at Berwyn, Llangollen, Denbighshire, North Wales (completed 1818) In the United States: * Chain Bridge (Easton, Pennsylvania), a historic change bridge spanning the Lehigh River (completed 1857) * Chain Bridge (Potomac River) The Chain Bridge is a viaduct which crosses the Potomac River at Little Falls in Washington, D.C. The steel g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Plan & View Of A Chain Bridge - Erecting Over The Menai At Bangor Ferry 1820
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Suspension Bridges
A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridges, which lack vertical suspenders, have a long history in many mountainous parts of the world. Besides the bridge type most commonly called suspension bridges, covered in this article, there are other types of suspension bridges. The type covered here has cables suspended between towers, with vertical ''suspender cables'' that transfer the live and dead loads of the deck below, upon which traffic crosses. This arrangement allows the deck to be level or to arc upward for additional clearance. Like other suspension bridge types, this type often is constructed without the use of falsework. The suspension cables must be anchored at each end of the bridge, since any load applied to the bridge is transformed into a tension in these main cables. The main cables cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chain Bridge
A chain bridge is a historic form of suspension bridge for which chains or eyebars were used instead of wire ropes to carry the bridge deck. A famous example is the Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest. Construction types are, as for other suspension bridges, a stressed ribbon bridge, a true suspension bridge, and special forms, such as the Tower Bridge and the Albert Bridge, London. Chain bridges were the first bridges able to cross wider spans than the previous wooden and stone bridges, combined with shorter building times and at lower costs.Robert Stevenson: ''Description of Bridges of Suspension.'' In: ''The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal'', ed. Sir David Brewster, Robert Jameson. vol. 5 no. 10, Edinburgh 1821, p. 237. History The first chain bridge ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chain Bridge (Budapest)
Chain bridges are suspension bridges built with chains. Some chain bridge built using this design have retained the name Chain Bridge. Thus as a proper noun, it may refer to: In Hungary: * Chain Bridge (Budapest), a bridge over the Danube in Budapest, Hungary (completed 1849) In Germany: * Chain Bridge (Nuremberg), a pedestrian bridge over the river Pegnitz in Nuremberg, Bavaria (opened 1924) In the United Kingdom: * Union Bridge (Tweed), a bridge over the River Tweed between England and Scotland (opened 1820) * Chain Bridge, a bridge over the River Usk in Monmouthshire, Wales (opened 1829) * Chain Bridge (Berwyn), a bridge over the River Dee at Berwyn, Llangollen, Denbighshire, North Wales (completed 1818) In the United States: * Chain Bridge (Easton, Pennsylvania), a historic change bridge spanning the Lehigh River (completed 1857) * Chain Bridge (Potomac River) The Chain Bridge is a viaduct which crosses the Potomac River at Little Falls in Washington, D.C. The steel g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chain Bridge (Nuremberg)
The Chain Bridge (german: Kettensteg) is a pedestrian Suspension bridge#Chain bridges, chain bridge in Nuremberg, Germany. The bridge crosses the river Pegnitz (river), Pegnitz just a few meters upriver of Fronveste and Schlayerturm, fortifications in the course of the medieval city wall guarding the river's exit from the town. It connects Maxplatz in Sebalder Altstadt (the old quarter north of the river) with Untere Kreuzgasse in Lorenz, the quarter on the south side of the river. The Chain Bridge was built in 1824 and is thus the oldest chain bridge on the European continent.Older examples were James Finley's Jacob's Creek Bridge (Pennsylvania), Jacob's Creek Bridge in Pennsylvania, United States (1808, demolished 1833), and, in Great Britain, Dryburgh Abbey Bridge (1817) and 137 m Union Bridge (Tweed), Union Bridge (1820). Guillaume-Henri Dufour#Saint Antoine Bridge, Dufour's Saint Antoine Bridge in Geneva (1823) was the first wire cable suspension bridge. It was not given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Bridge (Tweed)
The Union Chain Bridge or Union Bridge is a suspension bridge that spans the River Tweed between Horncliffe, Northumberland, England and Fishwick, Berwickshire, Scotland. It is four miles upstream of Berwick-upon-Tweed. When it opened in 1820 it was the longest wrought iron suspension bridge in the world with a span of , and the first vehicular bridge of its type in the United Kingdom. Although work started on the Menai Suspension Bridge first, the Union Bridge was completed earlier. Today it is the oldest suspension bridge still carrying road traffic and is a Category A listed building in Scotland, a Grade I listed building in England and an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. It lies on Sustrans Route 1 and the Pennine Cycleway. History Before the opening of the Union Bridge, crossing the river at this point involved an round trip via Berwick downstream or a trip via Coldstream upstream. (Ladykirk and Norham Bridge did not open until 1888.) The Tweed was f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemeys Commander
Kemeys Commander ( cy, Cemais Comawndwr) is a village in Monmouthshire, in South East Wales. Location Kemeys Commander, north-west of Usk, comprises a few farms and cottages slightly off the main road leading to Abergavenny within a graceful bend of the River Usk. The village has the parish church of All Saints. Origin of the name Its unusual name is derived from the fact that the patronage of the church was at one time held by the Knights Templar and was a commandery or preceptory, as their houses were termed. In the 16th century their successors, the Knights Hospitaller, drew £2 13s. 4d. per annum from demesne lands in this parish. There may have been a hermitage here in early days. It is, however, doubtful whether the Kemeys family ever held it, and they probably took their name from another Kemeys, Kemeys Inferior, nine miles (14 km) further down the River Usk. Both of these names are from the Welsh word ''cemais'' meaning 'bend in a river', and this is an apt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chain Bridge (Berwyn)
The Chain Bridge is a footbridge over the River Dee at Berwyn, Llangollen, Denbighshire, north Wales. Is owned by Llangollen Town Council and a pathway from Berwyn railway station, now part of the Llangollen Railway, leads under a subway and down to the bridge and to the Chain Bridge Hotel on the other side. The current bridge is the third such bridge, and was built by Sir Henry Beyer Robertson, following the destruction of the previous second chain bridge during severe flooding. First bridge The first chain bridge was built by Exuperius Pickering in order to transport coal, lime, stone, etc from the Shropshire Union Canal, (Llangollen Canal) across the Dee to Telford's recently completed London to Holyhead road. The bridge allowed Pickering to bypass the Llangollen toll bridge further downstream, and transport coal from his mines near Acrefair up the canal and onwards to Corwen. Permission to build it was granted in 1814 and it was completed by 1818, making it one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chain Bridge (Easton, Pennsylvania)
Chain Bridge or Change Bridge, also known as the Lehigh Canal Swinging Bridge and as Wire Towing Path at Pool No. 8, is a historic change bridge spanning the Lehigh River at Palmer Township and Williams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1856–1857, and consists of three stone piers and two spans. Each pier is approximately 30 feet high. In 1972, the bridge consisted of the piers and the cable. ''Note:'' This includes The chain bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ... in 1974. The NRHP listing included a area. It is included within a large historic district, Lehigh Canal: Eastern Section Glendon and Abbott Street Industrial Sites, which has numerous other structures and buildin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chain Bridge (Potomac River)
The Chain Bridge is a viaduct which crosses the Potomac River at Little Falls in Washington, D.C. The steel girder bridge carries close to 22,000 cars a day. It connects Washington with affluent sections of Arlington and Fairfax counties in Virginia. On the Washington side, the bridge connects with Canal Road. Left turns onto the Clara Barton Parkway from the Chain Bridge are prohibited, but the reverse is permitted. On the Virginia side, the bridge connects with State Route 123 (Chain Bridge Road), which provides access to the George Washington Memorial Parkway. The Chain Bridge has three lanes (of which the center is reversible) and can be safely accessed by pedestrians and cyclists. The pedestrian sidewalk provides access to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath via a ramp. The bridge also carries water mains which provides Arlington County with water from the Washington Aqueduct. History The first bridge at the location was opened on July 3, 1797. It was a wooden c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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