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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: JuST Peter on September 05, 2013, 09:43:23 PM

Title: Sydney's Harbour Bridge 1933
Post by: JuST Peter on September 05, 2013, 09:43:23 PM: A short look at how the 'coat hanger' came into being:

Sydney's Harbour Bridge (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy5cZ-IO0Eg#)
Title: Re: Sydney's Harbour Bridge 1933
Post by: Biggles on September 05, 2013, 11:01:00 PM: Engineers deserve huge credit for designing such marvels. The mathematics involved, considering they were using slide rules and log tables, excels today's computer-designed machinery. Imagine the surveying that was undertaken to align the foundations so precisely that the spans built on them met perfectly!
Title: Re: Sydney's Harbour Bridge 1933
Post by: ST2UP on September 06, 2013, 09:23:12 AM: Fascinating :thumb remember watching this clip at school when far to young to appreciate.

:beer
Title: Re: Sydney's Harbour Bridge 1933
Post by: Sabie on September 06, 2013, 01:12:16 PM: Impressive as it is, it's got nothing on the Bribie Island Bridge....... :p
Title: Re: Sydney's Harbour Bridge 1933
Post by: saaz on September 06, 2013, 06:13:05 PM: Its a pity they did not properly integrate the road traffic with continued use of trams and the ferries.
Title: Re: Sydney's Harbour Bridge 1933
Post by: Neale on September 06, 2013, 09:32:01 PM: Quote from: Sabie on September 06, 2013, 01:12:16 PM
Impressive as it is, it's got nothing on the Bribie Island Bridge....... :p

Pfffftt. :fp
Title: Re: Sydney's Harbour Bridge 1933
Post by: Sabie on September 06, 2013, 10:35:25 PM: Quote from: Neale on September 06, 2013, 09:32:01 PM
Quote from: Sabie on September 06, 2013, 01:12:16 PM
Impressive as it is, it's got nothing on the Bribie Island Bridge....... :p

Pfffftt. :fp

You're kidding aren't you Neale ........ The Bribie Island Bridge connects Mainland Australia with Queenslands only off shore island.......

What does the Sydney Harbour Bridge do? Besides looking like a coat hanger.... Come on there's just no comparison.
Title: Re: Sydney's Harbour Bridge 1933
Post by: Neale on September 07, 2013, 07:48:06 AM: And it only took me 7 letters and a full stop. :nahnah
Title: Re: Sydney's Harbour Bridge 1933
Post by: Brock on September 07, 2013, 09:17:02 AM: I flew a Hawk jet trainer under Sydney Harbour Bridge, cant do that with the Bribie Is bridge o:) o:)

OK, it was in a simulator, but the statement still stands..
Title: Re: Sydney's Harbour Bridge 1933
Post by: STill dreaming on September 07, 2013, 08:51:20 PM: Great clip,My Grandfather was one of the original painters on the bridge.
Title: Re: Sydney's Harbour Bridge 1933
Post by: Sabie on September 07, 2013, 09:28:24 PM: Quote from: STill dreaming on September 07, 2013, 08:51:20 PM
Great clip,My Grandfather was one of the original painters on the bridge.

That's quite a legacy SD. However, apparently he didn't get the job done....they're still painting it...
Title: Re: Sydney's Harbour Bridge 1933
Post by: STill dreaming on September 08, 2013, 07:11:35 AM: Not the bit he painted we do things properly in my family.