Where's that confounded bridge?
Posted on 06/26/2020 10:00:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
Da Vinci Ping!................
I understand the concept, but how would it have been suspended during construction? That would be my first question.
scaffolds...............
Time traveler stuck in past.
That was Robert Heinlein’s theory in one of his books. Leonard Vincent was sent back in a time machine and couldn’t be retrieved.
“Time traveler stuck in past.”
Does seem he was trapped in the past.
A man far ahead of his time. Wish we had one like him now (well, I guess we actually might, but if we do he was turned into Antifa material by his “teachers” long ago and will be absolutely useless to humanity because of it).
There are YouTube videos of folks making the bridge in their backyard.
"It's the power of geometry."
Many infallible proofs.
The crucial moment came, as it does in projects like these, with the adding of the keystone.
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Archimedes
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Franklin
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Tesla
Time for another genius inventor................
a very cool design... it would have been a wonder of the world if he were allowed to build it.
“I understand the concept, but how would it have been suspended during construction? That would be my first question.”
I imagine a temporary wooden framework underneath would support the masonry. Once the keystone is set, the wood would be removed. That’s the way a kid’s project at a science museum that I went to worked.
Some people really do seem to be ahead of their time.
During their lifetime, they are underappreciated, ignored, ridiculed or exploited by others who do see the value of their inventions. Nikola Tesla was also that way.
Where's that confounded bridge?
“Wish we had one like him now”
Elon Musk is the closest thing.
What you do is, you dry up the river by diverting it (let someone else worry about that part). Then you pile up a bunch of compacted sand and rocks, then you build the bridge over the compacted sand and rocks, then you un-divert the river (the same guy who diverted it can do this) and allow the river to wash away the compacted sand and rocks which you helped by boring holes through the sides of the pile. Easy-peasy...
Under a Led Zeppelin?................
Did they account for the weight properly? As linear size doubles, volume or mass increases eightfold (2 cube).
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