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IA on the Web - Links to other web sites
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Bridges & Roads |
| Trusses - A study by the Historic American Engineering Record (Truss Bridges) - Page 1(PDF), Page 1 Full Page(PDF), Page 2(PDF), Page 2 Full Page(PDF) This was a poster printed by the Montgomery C. Meigs Original chapter of the Society for Industrial Archeology, National Museum of History and Technology, 1976, using drawings made by the Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service by Arnold David Jones, artist. |
| www.past-inc.org/bibco offers a history of the Berlin Iron Bridge Co., a ‘virtual’ tour of the bridge fabricating plant, lenticular truss patents, and list and map of extant bridges in the state. |
| California Interstate Highways (www.dot.ca.gov/interstate). CalTrans celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Federal Highway Act of 1956, establishing federal funding for interstate highways, with a brief history, timeline, and photos of expressway and interstate highway construction. Many California freeways pre-date the landmark 1956 act and represented innovative designs. |
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King Bridge Company (Cleveland Ohio) was a late 19th Century US bridge building company located in Cleveland, Ohio. Website includes photos, info and locations of about remaining King bridges as well as history of company. |
| Lincoln Highway (www.nps.gov/mwro/lincolnhighway). The National Park Service’s study to identify historic resources and encourage preservation of features of America’s first transcontinentalautomobile tourist highway. |
| Pennsylvania’s Stone Arch Bridges (www.pastonearch.org). PennDOT is seeking public input on preserving stone-arch highway bridges in Philadelphia and surrounding counties. |
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The Historic Bridge Foundation (http://www.historicbridgefoundation.com) was organized in 1998 and serves as a clearinghouse for info on the preservation of endangered bridges as well as providing assistance, consulting & education on preserving historic bridges. The web site includes or will soon include a variety of pages on types of bridge construction, bridges in Texas and New Mexico as well as related links on bridge construction and listings of historic bridges by state. |
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