Broughton Suspension Bridge
About Broughton Suspension Bridge
Broughton Suspension Bridge was an iron chain suspension bridge built in 1826 to span the River Irwell between Broughton and Pendleton, now in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. One of Europe's first suspension bridges, it has been attributed to Samuel Brown, although some suggest it was built by Thomas Cheek Hewes, a Manchester millwright and textile machinery manufacturer.
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The famous one up near where I live is the Broughton Suspension Bridge between Manchester and Bolton, which collapsed in 1831 and was supposedly because people were marching across it and that resonance caused the bridge to collapse. That's the first bridge that collapsed due to a resonance.
from 523: No Such Thing As A Dice The Size Of The Universe, 2024-03-21 at 00:46:28 · read transcript
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