Of all the miracles of engineering, I am most impressed by suspension bridges. Instead of being held up from the bottom, they are suspended from the top, as if they were floating in the air. The ...

Once hotly debated as an experimental, costly pitch to restore the vulnerable eastern span in the wake of the 1989 Loma ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On a good day, commuters traveling between the city of Lapseki on ...

(CNN) - It's just physics. Friendly civil engineering. Take a load bearing deck held by vertical suspender cables attached to larger main support lines anchored by a pair of towers and the ground -- ...

On either side of a gorge high in the Peruvian Andes, an aging rope bridge sags precariously over the Apurímac River. 1 of 13 A Quechua man walks across the old suspension bridge at the start of the ...