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Show A llllllll.KOI'.SIZr. USB OV TlIK QIIPATMT TRUCTUIll!a OF OI)kllN T11IM TU BI'i.N TI1U 1 HAULS. London brldfo will b. r.ll.Tnd of a Jar ,(e art of Ita burden of Initio when iheal(litly new urm lure lac.mpleted. Already work on tb. towera la well advanced, ad-vanced, and Ibpuaanda of workmen aro hurrying It to completion. Iba uri-at alructur. will croea th.Tliaiuct near lb. Tower of London, and la therefore tub. known aa lli.Tow.r bridge. When It la rloaad Iba two learra of lb. oulng tan, cadi weighing IS) toui, are l.t down by counter-Hlanoa counter-Hlanoa welnhu to th. I.t.l of lb. Mdiie, SO feet ubdra lilgli watar. A. hundred fret abo Hie bridge lanl i another wny for foot baaaou-pera,wh. baaaou-pera,wh. will I. lakeu up by tlevalori lalh.Uwera whenever th. brldgo la (n and travel below la linpuded. I'lio iJ.ip.Bi are 570 feol wld. Willi a healway abor. high water of from SU JO !7 ftel; Ih. foundation ire 00 feol Wow high water mirk and IT fitl ow Ibo bod of th. rlror, nd tb. irhlg. hat a arcllonal area of waterway uo.OIJ niuai.frel aaiompared Willi by 19.S0U a.uaro feel of Ijondon l"dgo. riio total length of Hit. brblg. fudabutmenu la Oldfiol nnd of Iho Jtldgoand approachea '.010 fret, whll. b. ateeptat irradieut of aiproaolilal MO. that of ijondon bridge la 1 111 17. II will thua bu aen that Ih. bridge, when oompleted, will b. on. of lb h"t r.inaiLahl. In th. world, apau-flng apau-flng a. II doe. what la partial Iho l"lnll.rw.youiarlli. Horn. Sl,ooo,oo() tuicka, 7(1,500 cublo jarde of concrete, 10,600 ton. uf cenierit, S.1J,ooo cubic leot of grault. 4 other aton., and 18,000 tone of Iron nd ate.) ar. lo ha uid In conatruc- ion. Altach.d lo Ih. brldg. will alao bM,IIi.,t"n.ll"nln "UKlne. for uyaraullo nnohlnery, each aoo bora. Pojerj .Igbt largo hydraulic iuglcM i... '!? accumuhtora, and four hydraullo ol.vatura for paieeug.n. It "III coat J3 600,000. |
