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Show Doy Helped Solve Problem Of Brid2;inr Niagara Falls When the first bridge over Niagara Ni-agara Falls was planned in 1848, Vie problem of getting a cable from the American to the Canadian Canadi-an side was solved by offering $5 to the first person who could make a kite carry a string across the 800-foot chasm. After this had been accomplished accomplish-ed by a boy, the string was used to pull over a small steel cable 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 just below the American falls had a span of 820 feet, and was long considered con-sidered to be a feat of engineering. |