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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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    timber Howe truss in a commercial building. Jay Bridge showing the truss design. Westham Island Bridge showing its wooden truss design. The K-truss is named...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • (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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    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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    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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    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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    1803) invented the Howe truss bridge. His nephew, Elias Howe, Jr., invented the first practical sewing machine. Notes Elijah Howe died on January 9, 1816...
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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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    one of currently 16 drivable bridges in the county, is a single span Howe truss design. Built in 1868, it was reconstructed in 1984 with the help of three...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Hayden Bridge (Alsea, Oregon) (category Howe truss bridges in the United States)
    Hayden Bridge, a Howe truss structure, spans the Alsea River about 2 miles (3 km) west of Alsea, Oregon, United States. Constructed in 1918, the 91-foot...
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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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  • 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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    Short Bridge (category Howe truss bridges in the United States)
    Sweet Home, Oregon, near the community of Cascadia. The 105-foot (32 m) Howe truss type bridge was built in 1945. It is named for Gordon Short, a long-time...
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    Marsh Engineering Company of Des Moines, it replaced a covered timber Howe truss bridge. Clayton County rejected all of the original bids to build the...
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    Jay Bridge (category Howe truss bridges in the United States)
    destroyed by flooding in 1856. The bridge was rebuilt in 1857 using a Howe truss design. In 1953, a heavy truck fell through the floor of the bridge; repair...
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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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    in South St. Paul. The original bridge at this location was a wooden Howe truss design, built in 1873. It was built when Minneapolis, then only on the...
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