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To: Squidpup

That’s not an arch bridge. It’s a suspension bridge.


3 posted on 01/29/2008 10:12:47 AM PST by chopperman
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To: chopperman
That’s not an arch bridge. It’s a suspension bridge.

It's suspended from an arch not a cable.

6 posted on 01/29/2008 10:14:27 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: chopperman

The bridge still depends on the arch for support (as opposed to towers in ordinary suspension bridges).


8 posted on 01/29/2008 10:14:51 AM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: chopperman

http://www.matsuo-bridge.co.jp/english/bridges/basics/arch.shtm


14 posted on 01/29/2008 10:22:22 AM PST by Squidpup ("Fight the Good Fight")
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