bridges
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Watch A Bridge Get Quickly And Neatly Demolished In This Timelapse
Video: This footage from a few years back shows a bridge in Bedfordshire, England getting demolished in less than 15 hours. Basically, a night’s work was all it took to vaporise a steel and concrete structure. It’s really neat to see the progression and to see all the machines working in tandem. It’s also just…
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This Bridge Is Made From Nothing But 22,000 Sheets Of Paper
No glue. No cables. No steel reinforcements. The only thing keeping this bridge intact is, well, physics.
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No Cars Will Be Allowed On This Stately New Bridge
It was 1973 the last time a new bridge opened over Portland’s Willamette River: a double-decker span with eight lanes of freeway. Times have changed. When the Tilikum Crossing Bridge opens later this year, it will be one of the few in the US that’s purpose-built for transit, bikes and pedestrians — no cars allowed.
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The Radical Hanging Bridges That Time Forgot
It’s easy to think of technology as a constant forward march, a smooth catenary arch towards the present. But some technologies don’t make it. Sometimes, grand visions of the future only last for a few years — or maybe a few decades.