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RE: Adsactly Education - The Mississippi River-The Race West
hiya @adsactly, I was just pondering over the first steel bridge and for that era you would think it would have been a lot different, there was some real work and engineering that has taken place to make something like that. and with it been the first steel bridge over it, that must have taken time and planning to put together.
nice educational post :D
It was a REALLY big deal. Andrew Carnegie bet a huge fraction of his political and business capital on that bridge. The fact that it is still moving traffic across the River is just astounding o me.
I bet if it was made today like that there would be a massive health and safety assessment risk. the fact it is still standing is a cool thing, like my mum always said, things back in the old days where made to last, not like the stuff today where it is built to break so we buy more.
cheers @bigtom13