Balls Bridge and Truss Bridges: A Brief Historical Overview Nathan Holth Foreword: I composed this brief and informal overview of truss bridges and Balls Bridge to put this beautiful historic bridge ’s history and significance into context. A version of this document with full-color photos is available on my website ’s Balls Bridge Page located at www.historicbridges.org/ontario/balls/index.htm which also has more information and photos. The general truss bridge information in this document was
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A Wheatstone bridge is an electrical circuit used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit‚ one leg of which includes the unknown component. Its operation is similar to the original potentiometer. It was invented by Samuel Hunter Christie in 1833 and improved and popularized by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1843. One of the Wheatstone bridge’s initial uses was for the purpose of soils analysis and comparison.[1] -------------------------------------------------
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Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland published almost 200 years after Locke’s essay ironically conveys a similar theme of the unknown in life through Alice’s troubles in understanding Wonderland. While Carroll may be a logician‚ his literary work involving Alice gives a good reason to believe he would ironically agree with Locke’s philosophy. Locke believed acquiring knowledge based itself off an individuals particular state of mind. In other words‚ he notes that men often suffer in their pursuit of knowledge
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Alice is a fifty year old woman who is happily married to John who is a scientist and has three children together named Lydia‚ Tom and Anna. Lydia is the youngest daughter Lydia is a struggling actress who has rejected college and move to the West coast with some roommates Malcolm and Doug. She is also the one who stands by her mother‚ providing support‚ and wanting to maximize Alice’s independence and decision-making. Tom the middle child is currently in medical school and Anna the eldest child
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------------------------------------------------- Alice in Wonderland You may have thought Alice in Wonderland was just a children’s tale that everyone takes too seriously but there is more philosophy‚ metaphors‚ and spirituality in this revolutionary children’s book than you can fit into one teapot! It seems everyone from my generation and up has heard the story‚ read the book‚ or watched the movie at some point in their lives. Alice in Wonderland started as a book written in 1865 by Charles Lutwidge. It is about a girl named Alice who sees
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The Bridge of the Americas The Bridge of the Americas (Spanish: Puente de las Américas; originally known as the Thatcher Ferry Bridge) is a road bridge in Panama‚ which spans the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Completed in 1962‚ at a cost of US$20 million‚ it was the only non-swinging bridge (there are two other bridges‚ one at the Miraflores locks and one at the Gatun locks) connecting the north and south American land masses until the opening of the Centennial Bridge in 2004. The bridge
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Bonus Bridge Paper Transportation is key in today’s society. It’s all about getting from one place to another in the quickest way possible. The inconvenience of going around something or going directly through can be tiring and can take up a lot of time. That’s where bridges come in. A bridge is a structure carrying a road‚ path or railroad across bodies of water‚ other roads or any object that may be an obstacle. Although there are many different types of bridges‚ they all deal with compressible
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Suspension bridge – A parabola What is meant by suspension bridge? A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck (the load-bearing portion) is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. Outside Tibet and Bhutan‚ where the first examples of this type of bridge were built in the 15th century‚ this type of bridge dates from the early 19th century. Bridges without vertical suspenders have a long history in many mountainous parts of the world. Structure of suspension bridge – This
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Zhaozhou Bridge The well-known Zhaozhou Bridge‚ also known as Anji Bridge and the Great Stone Bridge‚ was designed and built by a craftsman named Li Chun in the years 595-605 during the Sui Dynasty(A.D 581-618). The bridge is located in the southern part of Hebei Province in China and spans above the Xiao River. It is the world’s oldest and the most well-preserved open-spandrel stone segmental arch bridge. The Zhaozhou Bridge is not only a practical means of transportation but also illustrates
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Alice In Wonderland Essay Alice in wonderland is written by Lewis Carol. Alice says in her role that animals should be lower class then her. She tries to take over the Kingdom by traumatizing people about creatures surrounding them. Alice tries to sketch her dream and have it the way she had it planed in her mind. Ultimately‚ she tries to act superior then the others. From Alice’s opinion she says that animals should be lower class then her. Alice doesn’t feel the sensitivity of animals
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