The beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge, the iconic aesthetics of the Brooklyn Bridge, and marvel of modern engineering that is the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge. Suspension bridges are a method of bridging the gap that has existed in its current form since the early 1800s. Since their inception, suspension bridges have always stood out as a…
Andrew Smith Hallidie immigrated to the US during the Gold Rush in 1852. His father had a patent for wire rope in Great Britain, so Smith Hallidie used wire rope technology that his father had patented to develop a system to haul ore from mines and to build suspension bridges in America. Birth of…
Imagine working in a 50 story building and your office is on the 47th floor. Now imagine, elevators don’t exist and you have to climb 47 flights of stairs every morning. Unthinkable right? Good thing elevators have been around for over 150 years. You can thank them later for saving you the treacherous trip. But…
A Cantilevered structure can be spotted from just about anywhere. These structures hang out of buildings, overhang to create billboards or traffic lights and are found in bridges. What is a Cantilever? Cantilevers are firm structures like beams, that are supported only at one end and freestanding on the other. Often times they provide a…
