Let's not forget the White Sea - Baltic Canal, which proved that even in the Soviet Union of 1933, the price of life could always be lowered.
Posted on 07/31/2016 2:30:19 AM PDT by moose07
If you fancy a little light reading : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._T._C._Rolt
The story of total shutdown to reincarnation is quite special.
He had a fine insight, suggesting before mamy that the logical outcome of mass prduction would lead to machines making machines and leave men obsolete.
I never reada about someone with so many things named after him!!
Even dabbled in horror using industrial settings as a backdrop :) That sure started a trend.
What genious.
Bridgewater is the Stage Coach Capital of Texas.
The town achieved fame and commerce by building a bridge to permit passage of the Overland Stage on the Butterfield Trail, the first transcontinental contract for the US Mail
Fascinating and should be taught in school.
Originally, the “walking lane” was so a horse or mule could tow the barge.
That makes sense. And of course the goal was to traverse over rough terrain in a much easier, cheaper and faster way, right?
Though not on the scale of some pictured here, the Roebling Bridge at Minisink Ford, NY was originally a canal aqueduct over the Delaware River. It used the same suspension cable technology he later used in the Brooklyn Bridge.
Not far from you either...easily in a day-trip drive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roebling%27s_Delaware_Aqueduct
Indeed, these canals was how Sampson Lloyd II and James Barclay expanded their banking empires in England.
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Well, that walking lane is the original towpath for the horses pulling the canal boats. No engines back then!
(Over the aqueduct, there is obviously room for one-way traffic only. So, a few go by one way, then the other way.)
On the wider canals, boats can go both ways, but there was one towpath, and so the faster boat (higher priority mail boat usually) kept going, and the slower freight boat stopped, let his line sink down to the bottom of the canal. That let the faster boat’s horses step over the tow line and keep going. Then the slow boat started walking again.
Before I check out, I’d like to sail down the Erie Canal. I’d prefer a 50 foot Sea Ray...
I think it was about 1980.
Let's not forget the White Sea - Baltic Canal, which proved that even in the Soviet Union of 1933, the price of life could always be lowered.
Is it possible that one was built by the Elder Roebling?
Built by John A. Roebling who also designed the Brooklyn Bridge using the same technology.
He may have had a hand in the design of the Brooklyn Bridge, but it was built by his son Washington Roebling.
It used the same suspension cable technology he later used in the Brooklyn Bridge.
Never said he built it. Also, he had more than just a hand in the design. It was his design and it was already under construction when he was injured.
OK,my misunderstanding.
No problemo.
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