A Love Letter to Cable-Stayed Bridges

Errata: At 14:14, the bridge shown is the Danube City Bridge in Vienna, not the Ed Hendler Bridge in Washington. Sorry for the mistake! I don’t think there’s a better example in history where all the various factors of a technical problem converged into a singular solution in this way. I love...

20 min - Engineering & Megastructures - Practical Engineering

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