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Beijing’s Jade Belt Bridge was built by the emperor Ch’ien-lung as part of a garden in tribute to his late father. An outstanding example of the traditional “moon bridge” style, it unites the green river curve with that of white marble and stone. The steep arch, high enough to allow the emperor’s ceremonial barge to pass underneath.
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The Industrial Revolution brought iron to Western bridges since the Roman arch. The Iron Bridge, in Shropshire, England, was the first to be constructed entirely of cast iron.
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15 May, 1811 indicates the amount of traffic using the ferry over the course of the preceding year. In a span of 12 months, more than 83,000 people, almost 6,000 carts and carriages and over 44,000 animals risked death by taking to the treacherous waters on the boats.
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When the Brooklyn Bridge, connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, opened in 1883, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world at 3,460 feet.
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Gustave Eiffel designed the immense Garabit Viaduct in France, it stood with a span of 1,853 feet crossed the Truyere River at a height of height of 400 feet
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Built to replace the ill-fated Tay Bridge, where 75 people died when a storm destroyed the bridge in 1879, the Firth of Forth Bridge needed to had a lot of strength.
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Santa Cruz Bridge was a bridge that spanned the Pasig River in the city of Manila in the Republic of the Philippines.
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Jones Bridge is a bridge that spans the Pasig River in the city Philippines connecting the districts of Binondo on Rosario Street.
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The San Juanico Bridge, part of the Pan-Philippine Highway, stretches from Samar to Leyte across the San Juanico Strait in the Philippines.
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The Coldwater Covered Bridge is a locally owned wooden covered bridge that spans the inlet to Oxford Lake in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States.
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Buntun Bridge is a river bridge from Tuguegarao City proper. It is the second longest bridge in the country and offers an unobstructed view of the Cagayan River.
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The Candaba Viaduct is a 5 km (3 mi). bridge passing over the Candaba Swamps and adjacent Pampanga River in the North Luzon Expressway.
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The Jubilee Parkway is a pair of parallel concrete viaduct bridges that carry Interstate 10 across Mobile Bay from the George Wallace Tunnel on Blakeley Island in Mobile, Alabama eastbound to Spanish Fort/Daphne, Alabama.
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Marcelo Fernan Bridge is an extradosed cable-stayed bridge located in Metro Cebu, Cebu in the Philippines.
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With a span of 1,088 metres, it was the cable-stayed bridge with the longest main span in the world in 2008-2012.
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The Qindao Haiwan Bridge is 26.7km long and is made up of 450,000 tons of steel.
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The current bridge was completed and opened to traffic in 1978. It measures 1.8 miles.
