Show boy helped solve problem of bridging niagara falls when the first bridge over niagara falls was planned in 1848 she e problem of getting a cable from the american to the canadian side was solved by offering 5 to the first person who could make a kite carry a string across the foot chasm after this had been accomplished by a boy the string was us used e ed to pull over a small steel cable le which for several years enabled persons to go back and forth two at a time in a little wire basket the original steel suspension bridge thrown across the river lust just below the american falls had a span of feet and was long considered to be a feat of engineering |