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Bridging' The Bosphorus

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
September
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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Capt, James B. Eads, engineer of the iron bridge at St. Louis, bas made elabórate plans for a graad irou bridge over the Bosphorus, conuocting Pera- European Constantinople - with the Asiatic shore. The bridge, if built, will be about 6,000 f eet long - over a mile - will have fiiteeu epans, will be 100 feet wide, and, save the masonry and flooring, will bo built of iron. The height of ttie roadwny above the surface of the water will be 120 feet. The central aroh will be 750 feet span. The two central piers will be fifty feot thick, of eolid granito blocks, locked together with iron braces. Tho main piers will be 270 feet high from the foundation to the summit. It is estimated that the cost of construction will not exceed $25,000,000, and the time six years. Capt. Eads is now 58 yearsold. This bridge will probably be bhe crowning work of a great engineering experience. Pekuvian guano was flrst iutroduced into Eugland in 1840; at first it arrived in oasks, aoon after ia cargo lot, ajid sold fit 9120 per ton,

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Old News
Michigan Argus