Golden Gate Transit

The Brooklyn Bridge became a symbol of modern world, and is represented in poetry and art. In 14 years, 600 workers, 2 dozen lost lives, and 15 million dollars later it was finished. As well as having the longest span in the world at 1,600 feet from tower to tower, it was the first ever steel suspended bridge. John Augustus Roebling was the pioneer of this piece of art. Roebling is credited with being the first to use steel as a component in his bridge design. Roebling has inspired many pieces of

is Maryum and the bridges that I researched about are the Golden Gate Bridge, the Batman Bridge, the Auckland Harbor Bridge, the Bixby Creek Bridge, and the Quebec Bridge. First, I would like to tell you about the Golden Gate Bridge. I’m pretty sure many of you may know about this bridge. The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge and was built in San Francisco, California in 1937. The Golden Gate Bridge spans or crosses the Golden Gate strait which is a mile wide and 3 miles long. The weight of

To accomplish the task of building a bridge out of popsicle sticks and elmer's glue, I designed and built a truss bridge. Once completed, it weighed 237 grams, and spanned 26 inches, with a height of 7.25 inches. When the bridge was tested, at 26 pounds of pressure, it began to buckle. The top support near the middle of the bridge on one side caved in, and as the weight increased, more of the top supports collapsed. At 47.3 pounds of pressure, the bridge snapped in half. By the end of the testing

The Newspaper bridge project is a project where students are given the challenge to make a bridge using newspaper, straws, and tape. Each material has a price. 1 sheet of paper $10, 1 straw $1, and 10 cm of tape $2. Students were given the challenge to make a bridge only using $25 of materials. In this essay, I will be explaining the process which my group constructed our bridge for this project. And answer the question; How to construct a newspaper bridge that will hold the most weight and is

It's 1934, prohibition is the law, and organized crime is booming. You've been convicted of tax evasion and have spent the last couple years at the Atlanta U.S. Penitentiary. With several thousand dollars stuffed in the hollow handle of your tennis racket, and a warden in your pocket, you've been living life like a king. But all that's about to come to and end, you find yourself standing on Pier 41, Fisherman's Warf, San Francisco bay. It's early morning and the fog obscures your view. As it starts

Alcatraz was a very famous prison located on a island in the San Francisco bay. It was used for many different things over the years. All different types of people also stayed there, and not just the prisoners. Life at the prison was bad in some ways but not as bad as you think. Many did try to escape and failed, but some did succeed. However with every land some wanted it as much as we did. Everyone knows of Alcatraz as a prison, but how did it become what it is today? The word or title Alcatraz

Eventually, I reach Fisherman’s Wharf, and park my car at a spot where it’s available for the whole day. I look at different signs indicating the timetable of different ferries for the day. I see one presenting “Alcatraz Island, 10 minutes, Platform 2”. Awesome! That’s one of the landmarks that was in the brochure. I hurry to get a ferry ticket, and proceed to wait at platform 2. After a few minutes, the ferry arrives, and it seems that a lot of people are getting on it too. I’ve always loved ferries

that they left just after the high tide came in. So most people think that they were headed to Angel Island which is a nearby island. But if they used their intuition they would realize that the tide would take them to the Marin Headlands by the Golden Gate Bridge.When the Mythbusters used a scale model tide tank of California the results were shocking. The tide took them straight to the Marin Headlands and nowhere near Angel Island. When they left was a crucial element of the escape, if they left

The Alcatraz By: Tom There is a quote saying, “ Break the rules and you go to prison, break the prison rules and you go to Alcatraz”? It is about the prison Alcatraz! It is the place where the convicts of the century were prisoned, like Al Capone, Birdman, Machinegun Kelly, and others. In the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Alcatraz is featured in a downloadable zombie survival map called "Mob of the Dead"(10 fascinating facts about Alcatraz 7) . It might be interesting to know about history

Alcatraz Penitentiary harbored some of this country's worst criminals from 1934 until its closing in 1963. This prison was located on Alcatraz Island, which was in the San Francisco Bay. It was housed on this island so the prisoners would not be tempted to escape. This prison was shut down because of the high costs to keep it running. Although many prisoners attempted to escape, the prison claimed that all of them failed at it. Alcatraz was set apart and on an island, it was greatly guarded because