Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 90
up the cables, it is plainthat three isolated piers would have performed that func- THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE AS A MONUMENT 75 tion, and the stability of these piers, loaded as they areby the cables, would very possibly have been assured,even if they had been completely detached from eachother. But in… … BRIDGE AT MINNEAPOLIS.Thomas M. Griffith, Engineer. y5 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE by steep pointed arches, and the spandrels of these filledwith a wall which rises to the summit of the piers, wherea flat coping covers the whole. There is a woful lackof expression in this arrangement. The piers…
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