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Show The Zambesi Bridge. The Zambesi bridge or the Victoria F.I IN l.r-dgc. n- It ,, r , ., ', ,). A a record bridge in many respects. Il is the highest 420 feet In the world, and It was iiuiit iii the shdrtesl time recorded for such a work, viz nineteen week. sir Charles Metcalfe .iio claimed that no other bridge of Its slr.e and capacity had ever been built ho cheaply, The total to-tal length of the bridge Is fiiO feet, of which the central span account for ft n feet between the pin centers on the two hanks the balance being made up of the two short span The great center span rleei In a graceful parabolic arch to the pouter, the spring f which starts from it bases of the main booms The vertical verti-cal rise to the crown la nlnetv feet. The main apari la mode of twenty bays estch twenty-five feel long, n-id lateral stability stabil-ity was secured iv a wide spread .it the feet of the bridge At the rail level tio- illstance between girder centers Is 27 feet fi Inches whereas al the bases the width betweet pin centers is fifty feet. The roadwuv projeeis bevon.l lb.' side g)rder so as to allow a clear thirty feel between parapets The brldgi Isof steel, and as n coated With Kr;i paint It Ih rendered n invisible as possible against the cloud of spray - th.- smoke th.ii sounds aj the native call it that rises from tin fails, and the undue obtrusion op the landscape which So many fe.ti.il lia thus been obviated. Englncr ring Magazine. |