The proposal of building two bridges in U. S. A. to celebrate the victory in World War I
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The proposal of building two bridges in U. S. A. to celebrate the victory in World War I
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Bridges as War Memorials?
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A VICTORY bridge for Niagara
Falls and another ome for
Buffalo have been proposed by Dr.
T. Kennard Thomson, a consulting
engineer of New York. He has
drawn up plans for building them
should his proposal be accepted.
The bridge at Niagara would have
a clear span of a thousand feet, with
the roadway one hundred feet wide
and one hundred and forty-five feet
above the water. It would be made
of massive steel trusses encased in
concrete. The total cost of such a
structure is estimated at not more
than ten million dollars.
The plan for Buffalo's bridge is for
one of six spans, since the water below
is less violent than the water at
Niagara. Each span would be three
hundred feet long and the spans and
approaches would measure in all about
a mile.
This bridge, which would likewise |
be one hundred feet wide and cost
ten million dollars, is planned to be
built of rock-faced granite backed
with concrete.
The idea seems to us a good one.
What more fitting background for the
commemoration of heroic deeds than
a bridge of dignified architecture?
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-08
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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33
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 95, n. 2, 1919
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