Good Info On A Wide Range Of Subjects 7

[SlideRuleEra]

Quite a bit of detail here - pick your subject

http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/tech/techhom.htm#civil

http://www.SlideRuleEra.net

 

[Skogsgurra]

Charming little essays. Pure reading pleasure! Thanks a lot!

Gunnar Englund

http://www.gke.org

 

[IRstuff]

great stuff!! the transport bridge is pretty fascinating.

TTFN

 

[zeitghost]

Yes, as bridges go the transporter bridge is truly weird.

It's located about 50 miles from me, though I've never used it.

The truly brave sometimes have the opportunity of walking across using the walkway right at the top.

 

[JAE]

Hey, slideruleera - You've provided so many links recently to great stuff...I'm wondering if you ought to put together a series of FAQ's - perhaps each with its own topic/subject and post them in appropriate forums throughout Eng-Tips. These could be simply a series of subject/link subject/link.....Just a thought.

 

[SlideRuleEra]

JAE - I'll give that idea, or something like it, serious consideration.

http://www.SlideRuleEra.net

 

[RalphChristie]

Well, lets make it 5, old man. (according to your name I suppose you are, hehehehe) But, to be serious, thanx for the link. Interesting stuff, like always.

 

[rb1957]

hear, hear ...

i particularly liked the reference (in the trasnporter bridge) to the "highway" that leads to the bridge ...
the B4237 ...

but then you'd have to know that B roads in the UK (not England, 'cause the bridge is in Wales) are scarsely highways (more like "waggon ways", but still fun to drive).

 

[ScottyUK]

Those of you who think the transporter bridge is wierd might enjoy the following links:

The first hydraulically operated swing bridge:

http://www.freefoto.com/preview.jsp?id=1043-26-51&k=The+Swing+Bridge,+Newcastle+upon+Tyne

The first rotating bridge with a horizontal axis:

http://www.freefoto.com/preview.jsp?id=1043-15-34&k=Gateshead+Millennium+Bridge,+Newcastle+Quayside

The smogmonster's^* transporter bridge:

http://www.freefoto.com/preview.jsp?id=1051-16-23&k=Transporter+Bridge,+Middlesbrough

The UK's first vertical lift bridge:

http://www.freefoto.com/preview.jsp?id=1051-16-3&k=Newport+Bridge,+Middlesbrough

^* Resident of Middlesbrough

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I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy it...

 

[panduru]

Thanks a lot, ScottyUK, for the wonderful images.
I'm on google reading up on them, ever since.

 

[Ashereng]

Hey Slide, thanks for the post.

Now I got futbol and your site to pay attention to!

"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
Albert Einstein
Have you read FAQ731-376 to make the best use of Eng-Tips Forums?

 

[JStephen]

Near Freeport, Texas, they used to have a bridge across the Intracoastal Canal that was essentially a barge that was floated in and out of place by cables- being around it all the time, it never seemed very special, and perhaps that way with some of these other bridges. But come to think of it, I've never seen another one like it.

It seems an awfully long ways to pick a bridge up like that- did they ever think to make one that submerged below the water instead?