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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Engineering. (search)
a rapid current. Their dimensions were so liberal that the new bridge was put upon them, although four times as wide as the old one. The superstructure was originally made of plate-iron tubes, reinforced by tees and angles, similar to Stephenson's Menai Straits Bridge. There are twenty-two spans of 240 feet each, and a central one of 330 feet. It was decided to build a new bridge of open-work construction and of open-hearth steel. This was done, and the comparison is as follows: Old bridge, 16 feet wide, single track, live load of one ton per foot; new bridge, 67 feet wide, two railway tracks and two carriage-ways, live load of 5 tons per foot. The old iron tubes weighed 10,000 tons, cost $2,713,000, and took two seasons to erect. The new truss bridge weighs 22,000 tons, has cost $1,400,000, and the time of construction was one year. The modern high office building is an interesting example of the evolution of a high-viaduct pier. Such a pier of the required dimensio
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Valley Forge (search)
nd less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to occupy a cold, bleak hill; and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them; and from my soul I pity those miseries which it is neither in my power to relieve nor prevent. At the same time the British army was Washington's private office at Valley Forge. Old Bridge at Valley Forge. made as weak by indulgence in the city as were the American soldiers by physical privations, and Franklin was justified in saying, Howe did not take Philadelphia; Philadelphia took Howe. At Valley Forge Baron Steuben entered upon his duties as inspector-general of the Continental army. There the joyful news reached the American army of a treaty of alliance with France. It was promulgated by Washington in general orders on May 6, 1778. He set apart the next day as one o