Bridges
Posted by sspiro on August 18, 2007
Listening to NPR in the car I caught a snatch of what sounded like an interesting piece about bridge design. The website has a famous video of the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940, video I remember watching in a physics class at school. Two bridges I would really like to see are the Millau Viaduct and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (is that a bridge?). The latter is a marvel of 19th century engineering, which we don’t get to see a lot of here in Texas. Speaking of which, my birthplace Stockport is home to another, the railway viaduct built in 1830, which may or may not be the largest (and longest) brick structure in Europe.
