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    A Howe truss is a truss bridge consisting of chords, verticals, and diagonals whose vertical members are in tension and whose diagonal members are in...
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    A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements, usually forming triangular units...
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    A truss is an assembly of members such as beams, connected by nodes, that creates a rigid structure. In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists...
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    industrial park to intersect with Highway 5. The Red Bridge was of the Howe truss design, and was one of the only remaining functioning bridges of this...
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    traditional Howe truss bridge, the end panel on each side of each end of the bridge has three vertical posts and three diagonal braces. Only five Howe truss bridges...
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  • County (1). The majority, 54, are Burr Arch truss designs, while the next most common truss style is a Howe truss with 23. One each of the older style King...
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    Gold Brook Covered Bridge (category Howe truss bridges in the United States)
    with Gold Brook Road and Stowe Hollow Road. The bridge is a single-span Howe truss, 48.5 feet (14.8 m) long and 17 feet (5.2 m) wide, with a roadway width...
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    William Howe (May 12, 1803 – September 9, 1852) was an American architect and bridge builder famous for patenting the Howe truss design for bridges in...
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    Elizabethton Covered Bridge (category Howe truss bridges in the United States)
    the Elizabethton Covered Bridge contains one span, a covered wooden Howe truss (typically constructed of timber diagonals and iron verticals) that is...
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    railroad. One of Whistler's important influences was the introduction of the Howe truss for the Russian railroad's bridges. This inspired the renowned Russian...
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    original design was described as a "two-span hybrid Howe truss" or as a "hybrid Queen Post – Howe timber configuration" with two louvred windows. (Additional...
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    communities of Hartland and Somerville. The framework consists of seven small Howe Truss bridges joined on six piers. The bridge was designated a National Historic...
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  • (1803–1852), patented Howe truss for covered bridges William Howe (mayor) (1864–1952), newspaperman in Victoria, Australia William B. W. Howe (1824–1894), Bishop...
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    1840 Howe truss A Howe truss is a specialized design of a trussed bridge whereby the vertical trusses are in tension and the diagonal trusses are compressed...
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  • the first train ride was on July 30, 1958. The railroad includes a 1904 Howe truss covered bridge that was originally located in East Montpelier, Vermont...
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  • age, but by its construction. An authentic bridge is constructed using trusses rather than other methods such as stringers (a popular choice for non-authentic...
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    Buskirk Bridge (category Howe truss bridges in the United States)
    Town and Howe truss designs were patented by Ithiel Town in 1820 and William Howe in 1840, respectively. The Buskirk Bridge a Howe truss design, and...
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    1866 Western Pacific rails abruptly stopped. Four major timber through (Howe) truss bridges were built to cross Alameda Creek and Arroyo de la Laguna Creek...
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  • August, the Tulameen bridge was completely rebuilt as a Howe truss. In 1918, a two-span Howe truss was built alongside the Similkameen bridge, and the former...
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    Built in 1863, it is one of the best-preserved 19th-century wood-iron Howe truss bridges to survive. It was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark...
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  • Victoria Bridge has originally one railway track, it was modified into a truss bridge in 1901, in order to widen it and accommodate a second railway track...
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  • for rehabilitation of seven covered bridges in Oregon. Chambers Bridge Howe truss Drift Creek Covered Bridge Office Bridge interior Rochester Bridge interior...
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  • Nechako River. The second Cameron Street Bridge, a single-lane wooden Howe truss bridge, was built in 1931. Traffic was directed over the single-lane structure...
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    the load, while the trusses kept the bridge rigid. Other designs included the King, Queen, Lattice, and Howe trusses. Early trusses were designed with...
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    New England in the 1840s for building hundreds of bridges, most of them Howe truss bridges (the patent for which he had licensed from its inventor). After...
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    The Truss ministry began on 6 September 2022 when Liz Truss was invited by Queen Elizabeth II—two days before the monarch's death—to succeed Boris Johnson...
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    Street float bridge (former Baltimore & Ohio) and the only surviving wood Howe truss float bridge in New York Harbor North River Pier 66a, and 69th Street...
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    three longest in the state. Each uses a standard truss design, braced with the Burr Arch. No one-truss design dominates in the state. The bridges are located...
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    Westham Island Bridge (category Howe truss bridges)
    comprised three 19-metre (63 ft) king trusses, a 31-metre (103 ft) howe truss, a 37-metre (123 ft) howe truss, and a 43-metre (140 ft) steel swing span...
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    Langley Covered Bridge (category Howe truss bridges in the United States)
    (86 m) across the river, it is made up of three spans and is made of the Howe truss construction. Its frame and timbers are constructed of White pine. The...
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