Cool engineering
Friday, 4 November 2005 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daThis is a Cool Thing. A water bridge across the River Elbe. It connects two canals, one in each of the former East and West Germany. It's nearly a kilometer long and they've been trying to build it since 1919, but a couple of world wars and partition of the country kinda got in the way.
It's got 24,000 metric tons of steel and 68,000 cubic meters of concrete, and took a mere 500 million Euros and six years to build (after the 80-year planning stage, of course).
It's just the idea of it that excites me- we've got two very convenient canals, but there's this unpredictable river smack dab in the way. I know, let's build a bridge!
It's got 24,000 metric tons of steel and 68,000 cubic meters of concrete, and took a mere 500 million Euros and six years to build (after the 80-year planning stage, of course).
It's just the idea of it that excites me- we've got two very convenient canals, but there's this unpredictable river smack dab in the way. I know, let's build a bridge!
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Date: Friday, 4 November 2005 11:50 pm (UTC)Are there long cloverleaf loops for barges that want to switch from canal to river?
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Date: Saturday, 5 November 2005 02:31 am (UTC)...Nah... I'm sure they just drop the barges over the side of the bridge...