Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 84
n-bridges in Europe are Telfords, overthe Menai Straits (589 feet), finished in 1825; Chaleysbridge, at Fribourg (870 feet), finished in 1834; andTierney Clarks bridge over the Danube at Pesth (670feet), finished in 1849. The longest spans bridged oth-erwise than by a roadway hung from cables are… … THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE AS A MONUMENT yl arches, at New York (510 feet). The largest span of anarch of masonry known to have been built in a bridge(251 feet) was in that built in the fourteenth century,and destroyed by Carmagnola in the fifteenth, whichcrossed the Adda at Trezzo. The largest now…
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