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Ninety years ago, construction teams were eleven months into work on building what is now one of the most famous and recognizable man-made structures in the world. The Golden Gate Bridge links San Francisco to Marin County and before the bridge was operational, a ferry service took people from one side to the other across […]
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On October 4, 1821 John Rennie the Elder passed away. The Scottish civil engineer designed many bridges across the United Kingdom, including the famous Waterloo Bridge over London’s Thames River, which was finished in 1817. Rennie had two other London bridges – Southwark (completed in 1819) and New London Bridge (opened in 1831). After Rennie’s death, his sons […]
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