Bridging the Bsphorous.
The successful completion of the Forth Bridge has led to the revival of an old project for bridging the Bosphorous between Roumeli and Anatoi-Hissar. A French engineer has prepared a plan for a cantilever bridge of a single span of £OO metres, at a height of about 200 feet above the water. The span would be about one-third greater than the longest span of the Forth Bridge, but the work would present no serious difficulty ; in fact, on account of the absence of any work to be done under water, it would be a much simpler affair than its great prototype. Even if the work is not carried out now, it is tolerably certain that some day a huge bridge will at this point serve as a link between the railway systems of Europe and Asia; but the railways must be a little more developed, especially on the Asiatic side, before capitalists will take a friendly view of any such scheme.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 475, 28 May 1890, Page 5
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164Bridging the Bsphorous. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 475, 28 May 1890, Page 5
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