Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Joseph Baermann Strauss (January 9, 1870 – May 16, 1938) was an American structural engineer. He was the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge.
See Wikipedia entry.
He also introduced a new type of bascule bridge[1], several examples of which survive, including Skansen Bridge in Norway. The priciple of Strauss's bascule bridge is clearly shown in the animation here.
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