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Steel Suspension Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge (1883) hangs its deck from steel-wire cables across 486 m, then the longest span in the world.
Open in the interactive tree →John Roebling's design, built under Washington Roebling, combined stone towers with spun steel-wire cables and deep caissons for the foundations. It set the pattern for the long suspension bridges that followed.
Prerequisites
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- Bessemer Steel1856
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