Sentence examples for timber bridges from inspiring English sources

The building of covered timber bridges, however, continued even in the second half of the 20th century.

The brothers' ingenious combination of the arch and truss principles made it possible to construct longer and better timber bridges than ever before.

In the 18th century the Grubenmann brothers of Switzerland built covered timber bridges of considerable length, notably an arch-truss bridge over the Limmat River in Baden with a clear span of 200 feet (61 m).

This is the spot for mastering "North Shore riding" - so called because it was invented in the rainforest north of Vancouver where riders had to build elevated timber bridges to carry themselves over the dense undergrowth.

In this chapter, timber bridges are presented.

This paper studies network arch timber bridges.

A short distance away was a second, timber, bridge, giving another view of the gulley waterfall.

Replacing a timber bridge (one of several built in late Roman and early medieval times), Peter's structure was the first great stone arch bridge built in Britain.

In 1755 a Swiss builder, Hans Grubenmann, used trusses to support a covered timber bridge with spans of 51 and 58 metres (171 and 193 feet) over the Rhine at Schaffhausen.

Hans Ulrich Grubenmann and Johannes Grubenmann, (respectively, born March 23 , 1709 Teufen, Switz. died Jan . 24 , 1783Teufen; born 1707, Teufen?, Switz. died 1771, Teufen?), Swiss carpenters and bridge builders whose bridge (1758) over the Limmat River at the town of Wettingen, near Zürich, is believed to be the first timber bridge to employ a true arch in its design.

If the timber bridge design is chosen, it will be the longest timber bridge in the world once constructed.