A moveable bridge, or movable bridge, is a bridge that moves to allow passage for boats or barges. In American English, the term is synonymous with drawbridge...
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A bascule bridge (also referred to as a drawbridge or a lifting bridge) is a moveable bridge with a counterweight that continuously balances a span, or...
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Moveable may refer to: A Moveable Feast Moveable feast Movable type Moveable bridge History of printing in East Asia Personal property This disambiguation...
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Drawbridge (redirect from Draw bridge)
A drawbridge or draw-bridge is a type of moveable bridge typically at the entrance to a castle or tower surrounded by a moat. In some forms of English...
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Calatrava Ground support equipment Mobile lounge Moveable bridges for a list of other moveable bridge types Justia/trademarks The term Jetway is a registered...
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Such a bridge is more properly called a low water bridge. Low water crossing, a non-moving bridge that is sometimes submerged Moveable bridges for a list...
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The Rolling Bridge is a kinetic sculpture, and a unique type of curling moveable bridge, completed in 2004 as part of the Grand Union Canal office and...
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A tilt bridge is a type of moveable bridge which rotates about fixed endpoints rather than lifting or bending, as with a drawbridge. The tilting Gateshead...
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of sonometers with movable bridges. Parts of a monochord include a tuning peg, nut, string, moveable bridge, fixed bridge, calibration marks, belly or...
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protect the bridge from watercraft collisions when it is opened. This artificial island forms an excellent construction area for building the moveable span,...
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A retractable bridge is a type of moveable bridge in which the deck can be rolled or slid backwards to open a gap while traffic crosses, usually a ship...
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over other movable bridges such as the bascule and swing-span bridges. Generally speaking, they cost less to build for longer moveable spans. The counterweights...
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John Alexander Low Waddell (category American bridge engineers)
modern day Hardesty & Hanover, a leading moveable bridge engineering firm. Many of Waddell's surviving bridges are now considered historic landmarks. John...
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A folding bridge is a type of moveable bridge engineered to fold. This allows ship traffic to pass through the waterway that the bridge spans. An example...
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example, the Bridge of Sighs in Cambridge, and Oxford's Bridge of Sighs and Logic Lane covered bridge. A jet bridge is an enclosed, moveable bridge which extends...
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River at Rio Vista, California. The present bridge was completed in 1960 and is one of several moveable bridges spanning rivers in the Sacramento–San Joaquin...
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dedicated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. This moveable bridge is a lift bridge with the middle section capable of being lifted from its low...
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A table bridge is one of the types of moveable bridge in which the deck moves vertically. Two or four hydraulic pillars under the bridge, one or two at...
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Thames Moveable bridges Pool of London HMS Belfast London Bridge Shad Thames St Katharine Docks Tower of London "What type of bridge is Tower Bridge?". towerbridge...
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The Yumemai Bridge (夢舞大橋, yumemai ōhashi) is a floating moveable bridge in Konohana District, Osaka, Japan. It spans the North Waterway connecting the...
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proposed crossing at BAE Systems' yards in Scotstoun and Govan, a moveable bridge structure would have to be built to let vessels pass up and down the...
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A Moveable Feast is a memoir by Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling expatriate journalist and writer in Paris during the 1920s. It was published...
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the lift span List of vertical-lift bridges Vertical-lift bridge Moveable bridge Betts, Don. "Site 07: Selkirk Bridge". Red River North Heritage. Retrieved...
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on the bridge. For a railroad bridge, the bridge tender is also responsible for rail traffic safety. Moveable bridges typically have a bridge tender's...
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Opened in 1923, it is the last surviving vehicular moveable bridge in Union County. The bridge is intact but has been out of operation since 2011 and...
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avoiding downtown Annapolis. This bridge was the replacement for an aging, moveable structure. The design of the moveable bridge had been driven in large part...
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Council Architects for restoration work on the bridges at Fort Nelson. Moveable bridges Guthrie’s Rolling Bridge by David Moore The Redan no. 26 October 1992:...
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Floating Bridge, officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, and commonly called the SR 520 Bridge or 520 Bridge, was a floating bridge in the U...
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Veterans' Glass City Skyway (redirect from Toledo Skyway Bridge)
Robert Craig Memorial Bridge, a bascule bridge that was, until its transfer to local control, one of the last moveable bridges on the Interstate highway...
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1958 Newark Bay rail accident (redirect from Newark Bay Lift Bridge Disaster)
restricting and a stop signal, derailed, and slid off the open Newark Bay lift bridge in Newark Bay, New Jersey, United States. Both diesel locomotives and the...
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