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The final touch on the years-long effort to preserve and restore the Pratt truss bridge over Catoctin Creek was celebrated Friday with the unveiling of a historical marker highlighting its ...
The Pratt Through Truss bridge was built in 1915 at First Street in Loveland and moved to its current location at Fairgrounds Park in 1970. Loveland City Council finalized a historic landmark ...
“This would mark the first time that a such pin replacement has been performed on the steel Pratt-truss bridge linking New Hope and Lambertville,” the commission added.
A rusted 120-year-old pin has caused the 2-week closure of the New Hope-Lambertville Toll-Supported Bridge between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The Geometry of Compasses; or, Problems Resolved by the mere Description of Circles, and "the Use of Coloured Diagrams and Symbols". By Oliver Byrne. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Co., 1877.) ...
There’s the old post office which closed shortly after the start of the 20th century, a farmhouse, the ruins of a grist mill, and the Little Walnut Pratt Truss Bridge, which is on the National ...
The Whipple truss design was patented by Squire Whipple in 1847 and was considered a stronger version of the more common Pratt truss, because the diagonal steel bars cross two panels instead of one.
Despite the fact it is the first Pratt truss bridge to be built in Australia and that it received state heritage listing in 1999, the historic railway bridge over the Yass River is in danger of ...