Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 66
Kentucky river cantilever bridge ARCH AND BOWSTRING BRIDGES 31 span should that span not extend to the shore but pass from onepier to another. The first cantilever bridge in America was designed by C.Shaler Smith for the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, to cross theKentucky River; it was built in… … Arch bridge, Niagara Falls bridge of 840 feet in its central span, which, in its constructionduring 1898, followed the plan originated by James B. Eads inbuilding the St. Louis bridge nearly thirty years before. As scaf-folding was out of the question in both cases, each bridge wasbuilt out from…
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