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Chain bridges are
Chain bridges are 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 ...
built with chains. Some 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 suspen ...
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 girder bridge carries close to 22,000 cars a day. It connects Washington with affluent sections of Arlington and Fairfax counties in V ...
a bridge at the Little Falls of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. (completed 1808)
* Chain Bridge (Massachusetts), a bridge which crosses the Merrimack River, connecting Amesbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts (completed 1810)
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