Twin Bridges
By Henry Petroski
A look at the paired spans traversing Maine's Kennebec River
This Article From Issue
January-February 2001
Volume 89, Number 1
Page 15
DOI: 10.1511/2001.14.15
There is style in bridges just as there is in clothing. As surely as we would not expect a suit or dress bought today to be of the same cut and fabric as one bought in the 1920s, we should not expect a bridge built today to be identical to one built seven or eight decades ago. This is not to say that tailoring and structural engineering are purely faddish. Rather, it is to recognize that advances in materials and methods, as well as changes in aesthetic models and tastes, make possible advances in garment and bridge construction of which designers have naturally taken advantage.
Photograph courtesy of Paul Cunningham, The Times Record.
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