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Historic Bridge Foundation
P.O. Box 66245
Austin, Texas 78766
Phone 512/407-8898
For information on
preserving bridges
or other information
about bridges,
please contact:
Kitty Henderson,
Executive Director
General listings containing information about bridges
Notable bridges around the world
Bridge construction
American Society of Civil Engineers Information about the ASCE and its services.
Association for Preservation Technology The Association for Preservation Technology International (APT) is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to "advancing the application of technology to the conservation of the built environment."
Bailey Bridges Information about these "instant" bridges originally designed for military use.
Bridge Research Photos of and research about collapsed bridges. Discusses the role and value of research as part of the nation's investment in highway bridges.
Digital Bridges An online collection of 19th Century American bridge engineering manuals, reports, and textbooks drawn from the Special Collections of Lehigh University Libraries. The site is designed to provide a uniquely rich interactive research tool for students, historians, and engineering professionals.
International Civil Engineering Abstracts Lots of links to sites about the area of structural engineering, including bridges.
Mark Ketchum's Bridge Engineering Page This personal home page includes bridge photos and descriptions of bridges located world wide that Mark Ketchum has worked on.
National Historic Covered Bridge Preservation (NHCBP) Program The program provides funding to assist the States in their efforts to preserve, rehabilitate, or restore the Nation's historic covered bridges.
NOVA Online Super Bridge "Super Bridge," shown on PBS, chronicled the building of the state-of-the-art Clark Bridge over the Mississippi. On this Web site, you can test your engineering skills by trying to match the right bridge to the right location.
Society for Industrial Archeology "The SIA is made up of over 1,800 members, world-wide, who have a strong interest in preserving, interpreting and documenting our industrial past and heritage."
Railroad Bridge Monitoring Project Union Pacific bridge 844.7 spanning the Brazos River at Waco, Texas, will be instrumented with fiber optic sensors to measure dynamic strains induced by trains crossing the bridge and the onset of cracks in ther support structure.
Roebling's Bridge Division Resources about bridge construction, as well as fact sheets on some of the most famous bridges in the U.S.
Terminology Bridge structure-related definition list.
User's Network Personal home page by Raid Karoumi, Stockholm, Sweden. Information about bridges, with an invitation to "add a bridge."
General listings containing information about bridges
American Highway Project The American Highway Project uses photography to document vanishing Americana including some bridges. They are a photographic resource for those interested in the history of transportation and architecture. Visit their photo gallery.
The BridgeSite Contains many bridge-related links.
Chronology of Bridges Lists bridges and the year built.
Historic Bridges in the News Includes archives back to March 2003, as well as other online bridge resources.
National Bridge Inventory The National Bridge Inventory (NBI) is the collection of over 600,000 bridges on public roads throughout the U.S.
National Park Service search engine Type in "bridges" to find nearly 5000 entries, including natural bridges.
Federal Highway Administration Click on the search button and enter "bridges" to link to thousands of documents.
Notable bridges around the world
Australia Requires Quicktime. Get a 360 degree panoramic view from atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney.
Canada The Lions Gate bridge.
Canada Menesetung Bridge in Ontario.
Canada
The Quebec Bridge opened in 1917.
China Tsing
Ma Bridge carries both motor and rail.
China Stonecutters Bridge, Hong Kong.
Czech Republic Photo and information about the Charles Bridge in Prague.
Denmark The Oresund Bridge connects Denmark and Sweden.
Denmark The Great Belt bridge in Copenhagen.
France Walk along the Seine River in Paris, clicking on the bridges located along the Seine.
France More about the Pont du Gard near Nimes.
France The Garabit Viaduct in St. Flour, France and designed by E. Eiffel.
France The Normandy Bridge.
Greece Calkida Cable Bridge
Hungary Szechenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest.
Iceland Frijoska bridge built in 1908.
Indonesia A photo of a liana bridge.
Indonesia Bridges in Indonesia.
Ireland and England History of the bridges of the Menai Straits, the Britannia Bridge.
Ireland Kenmare suspension bridge built around 1900.
Italy Photos and information about the Ponte Vecchio in Florence (Italian text).
Italy Photo of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice.
Japan Various bridges in Japan and elsewhere.
Japan Innoshima suspension bridge.
Japan Night views of the many bridges in Kansai.
Japan Seto Great Bridge links Shikoku to Honshu.
Kazakhstan Irtysh River Bridge.
Netherlands The bridges of Amsterdam.
New Guinea and East Indonesia Photos of three rustic bridges located in Ibiroma, Sogokmo and Yuarima.
Portugal The bridges of Porto.
Scotland Information and photos of the Forth Bridge Railway crossing the Firth of the River Forth at Queensferry.
Scotland Photo of the Forth Bridge Railway and the River Forth at Queensferry.
Spain Photos and information about the Alcantara Bridge and Gate built in the 13th century, located in Toledo.
Sweden High coast bridge.
Switzerland The Salginatobel Bridge between Schiers and Schuders, Graubuenden, Switzerland.
Switzerland Photos of the Kapellbrucke, the Chapel Bridge, over the Reuss in Lucerne.
Thailand Rama VIII Bridge.
United Kingdom Photos of the Tower Bridge over the River Thames in London.
United Kingdom Night views of the Tower Bridge over the River Thames in London.
United Kingdom Photo of the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash.
United Kingdom Extensive information about the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash.
United Kingdom Marlow suspension bridge crosses the Thames at Marlow. Built between 1829 and 1832.
United Kingdom The Tyne bridge is the most famous of the six bridges listed.
Zimbabwe Information about the Great Zambesi Bridge located at Victoria Falls in Zambabwe, Africa.
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