History of the Modern Suspension Bridge

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Duration: 3 min 30 s
Description: "When he was thinking about how to build a bridge across the River Tweed, Sir Samuel Brown stopped while observing a spider's web. Right at this time he discovered the suspension bridge." —Charles Bender, 1868.
Tadaki Kawada
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