Bridges presentation
Rapport sur les ponts en fil de fer sur le Rhône.
Few bridges in the world built since the Brooklyn Bridge in New York (USA) can stand entirely
clear of its shadow. Completed in 1883, the plan involved two distinctive stone towers, four main
cables, anchorages, diagonal stay cables, and four stiffening trusses separating the common roadway
and trolley line from a pedestrian promenade. With a record-breaking span of 1595ft (486m), the
Brooklyn Bridge was designed by John Roebling, but it was built by his son and daughter-in-law
after he died of blood poisoning following an accident while surveying the location of the
Manhattan tower in which his foot was crushed. Massive Egyptian towers, pierced by pointed
Gothic arches, stand 276.5ft (84m) above mean high water and 78.5ft (24m) below on the
Manhattan side, 44.5ft (14m) on the Brooklyn. Diagonal stay cables give the bridge its distinctive
annaabi.ee 
