suspension span of 2,640 feet long along with a cantilevered truss span of 685 ft. on each end. However, his design was rejected by the public because they thought such a bridge would ruin the beauty of the area. Therefore, Strauss had to work with Othmar Ammann, Charles Derleth Jr., and Leon Moisseiff, consulting engineers, who together created a new design. They created a suspension bridge with a length of 4,000 ft. Their new design was approved by the U.S. War Department in 1930 and construction proceeded
vBridge is a structure that allows you to go over obstacles such as valleys, rough terrain or water by spanning those obstacles with natural or manmade materials. In the past people invented bridges to cross small distance over simple obstacle such as a pond, they used a simple logs or two vines and put it over the distance they wanted to cross. However, today bridges are much more complex. Todays bridges are made of stone, wood, steel, and reinforced concrete. Metals such as aluminum, titanium.