The new set of wire ropes now being ... in turn replaced the original cable manufactured by John A. Roebling’s Sons Co., the pioneer of engineered suspension bridges in the U.S. Patrick Sparks ...

The bridge Mr. Ellet proposes is a wire suspension bridge, of such size and weight as to be competent to the uses of railroad as well as ordinary travel. At the preferred point, at the Three ...

Some of the most vulnerable and integral cable sections and rods on the new $6.5 billion San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge ... end of the suspension span that hold the cable strand ends, sockets ...

Stretching 1,640 ft between anchorages, the suspension cables of the bridge support ... Barges then carried the modules to the bridge to be lifted with strand jacks into position over the river ...

Original suspender cables are in the midst of being replaced ... of civil engineering at McMaster University. Yang says suspension bridges are typically designed to maintain a decent level of ...

The workshop where John Roebling developed the wire-rope cable that he used when designing the Suspension Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge badly needs repairs. The building is located in Saxonburg ...

with one cable only reporting 43 per cent of its original strength, the worst result in the bridge's history. According to the report, while the 160 suspension lines of the bridge are checked ...

We learn by the "St. John's Chronicle," New Brunswick, that the wire suspension bridge over the St. John's river, near that city, is completed, " and every body and his wile," and all kinds of ...