Bridges

Bridge basics

Pont du Gard, Nimes, France, 18 B.C.

Ponte Sant'Angelo, Rome, A.D. 134

Anji Bridge, Zhaoxian, China, late 6th century

Pont d'Avignon, Avignon, France, 1187

Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy, 1345

Mostar Bridge, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1566

Rialto Bridge, Venice, 1591

Garden bridges

Pont Neuf, Paris, 1609

Palladian Bridge, Buckinghamshire, England, c. 1744

Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale, England, 1779

Menai Suspension Bridge, Menai Strait, Wales, 1826

London Bridge, London, 1831; Lake Havasu City, Arizona, 1971

Starrucca Viaduct, Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, 1848

Delaware Aqueduct, Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania-Minisink Ford, New York, 1849

Catastrophe

Britannia Railway Bridge, Menai Strait, Wales, 1850

Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge, Cornish, New Hampshire-Windsor, Vermont, 1866

Whipple Bowstring Truss Bridge, Albany, New York, 1869

Eads Bridge, St. Louis, Missouri, 1874

Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn-Manhattan, New York, 1883

Garabit Viaduct, Saint-Flour, France, 1884

Forth Bridge, Queensferry, Scotland, 1890

Covered bridges

Tower Bridge, London, 1894

Hell Gate Bridge, Queens-Bronx, New York, 1916

Bloedel Donovan's Bridge, King County, Washington, 1920

Michigan Avenue Bridge, Chicago, 1920

Salginatobel Bridge, Schiers, Switzerland, 1930

George Washington Bridge, New York-New Jersey, 1931

Sydney Harbor Bridge, Sydney, Australia, 1932

The bridges of war

San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge, California, 1936

Siuslaw River Bridge, Florence, Oregon, 1936

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, 1937

Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Tacome, Washington, 1940

Ludendorff Bridge, Remagen, Germany, 1918

Mackinac Bridge, Straits of Mackinac, Michigan, 1957

Lake Maracaibo Bridge, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1962

Bridges in the movies

Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Tampa Bay, Florida, 1987

Hitsuishijima and Iwakurojima bridges, Kojima-Sakaide, Japan, 1988

Lusitania Bridge, Merida, Spain, 1991

Natchez Trace Parkway Arches, Franklin, Tennessee, 1994

River Relocation, Providence, Rhode Island, 1996

Erasmus Bridge, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1996

No bridge too far

Confederation Bridge, Northumberland Strait, Canada, 1997

Tsing Ma Bridge, Hong Kong, 1997

East Bridge, Great Belt Fixed Link, FunenZealand, Denmark, 1998

Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, Kobe-Naruto, Japan, 1998

Tatara Bridge, Onomichi-Imabari, Japan, 1999

100 longest bridges in the world.