This type of span, which is known variously as an aerial transfer, ferry, or transporter bridge, had first been demonstrated in Bilbao's Vizcaya Bridge in 1893 and one in France in 1898.
Vizcaya Bridge, a bridge commonly called Puente Colgante, which spans the Nervion River in the Biscay province of Spain.
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