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Beipanjiang River 2003 Bridge

Beipanjiang River 2003 Bridge is a 366 metre high suspension bridge on the Guanxing Highway near Xingbei Town (Xinbeizhen), Zhenfeng County, Guizhou Province, China.

Chakzam Bridge

The Chakzam Bridge (also Chushul Chakzam) was a suspension bridge that spanned the Yarlung Tsangpo river near Lhasa in Tibet.

Delaware and Hudson Canal Company Office

It is a short distance north of Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct, one of the earliest suspension bridges in the United States, and a short distance south of the Zane Grey Museum.

Egyptian Bridge

The one-span suspension bridge that it replaced was of historical interest as a monument to early 19th-century Egyptomania.

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

The Federal Reserve moved two blocks away on Marquette Avenue to a building now known as Marquette Plaza, which is constructed much like a suspension bridge with cables strung between pillars at the ends carrying the load.

Fort Steuben Bridge

The Fort Steuben Bridge, originally the Weirton-Steubenville Bridge, was a suspension bridge which spanned the Ohio River from Steubenville, Ohio to Weirton, West Virginia and carried U.S. Route 22 and then Ohio State Route 822 during its existence.

John Rennie the Younger

He was responsible for the New River Ancholme Drainage Scheme in Lincolnshire, and Horkstow Bridge, which he designed to cross the river at Horkstow in 1835–6, is one of the earliest suspension bridges to survive and remains substantially as designed.

Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge

The site for the bridge, as originally proposed was between Kingston Point and downtown Rhinebeck, and the design was initially a suspension bridge almost identical in appearance to the Mid-Hudson Bridge.

Ohio State Route 550

It then continued west along the Ohio River, concurrent with SR 7 to Newport where it crossed into St. Marys, West Virginia on the Clarksburg-Columbus Short Route Bridge, later renamed the Hi Carpenter Bridge in 1967, an eyebar-chain suspension bridge bridge.

Tancarville Bridge

The Tancarville Bridge (Pont de Tancarville in French) is a suspension bridge that crosses the Seine River and connects Tancarville (Seine-Maritime) and Marais-Vernier (Eure), near Le Havre.

Wellington Suspension Bridge

The Wellington Suspension Bridge (also known as the Chain Bridge and Craiglug Bridge) is a suspension bridge crossing the River Dee from Ferryhill to Craiglug in Aberdeen, north east Scotland.

Yukon Suspension Bridge

The Yukon Suspension Bridge is a pedestrian cable suspension bridge located on mile 46.5 on the South Klondike Highway in Northern British Columbia, Canada.


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13 Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers

The unit's first major operation was constructing a suspension bridge over the Helena River at Guildford in Western Australia.

Capilano Bridge

Capilano Suspension Bridge, a pedestrian suspension bridge in North Vancouver, British Columbia across the Capilano River

Clark Eldridge

Federal officials decided that Eldridge's design was too expensive, so they required the Washington State Toll Bridge Authority to hire noted suspension bridge engineer Leon Moisseiff of New York as a consultant.

Giza Zoo

The zoo also includes a suspension bridge designed by Gustave Eiffel that lets visitors view the animals from above.

Hawkshaw Bridge

The Hawkshaw Bridge is a cable-stayed suspension bridge crossing the Saint John River near Nackawic, New Brunswick, Canada.

Joseph Chaley

His only bridge still in existence is the 121m suspension bridge at Corbières (1837).

Lisbon Bridge

25 de Abril Bridge, a suspension bridge on the Tejo River, connecting Lisbon to the municipality of Almada

Lot Clark

Later he was President of the Niagara Falls International Bridge Company, the American company which built the first suspension bridge over the Niagara River together with the Canadian Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company headed by William Hamilton Merritt.

Luigi Giura

Giura's fame comes primarily from his suspension bridge designs: the Bridge Real Ferdinando sul Garigliano, which was the first suspension bridge built in continental Europe, in 1832; and the Maria Cristina Bridge on the River Calore near Benevento, completed in 1835.

Peace River Suspension Bridge

The Peace River Suspension Bridge was a bridge near Taylor, British Columbia, Canada, crossing the Peace River.

Pelorus Bridge

A circular walk leads over a pedestrian suspension bridge over the Rai River.

São Vicente, São Paulo

A suspension bridge linking the island to Praia Grande on the mainland was first constructed in 1914; a second link, the Mar Pequeno Bridge, was opened in 1981.

Shogomoc River Pedestrian Bridge

Shogomoc River Pedestrian Bridge is a 265 foot suspension bridge in Canterbury, New Brunswick.

Six Foot Track

The river is crossed either via ford or by using a suspension bridge, called Bowtells Swing Bridge, built by 3 Troop, the 'Tunnel Rats' of the 1st Field Squadron of the Royal Australian Engineers in 1991.

Whorlton, County Durham

Situated near the River Tees and to the east of Barnard Castle, Whorlton has a pub called the 'Bridge Inn' due to the 19th century suspension bridge situated just outside the village.