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A pontoon bridge or floating bridge is a bridge that floats on water, supported by barge-or-boat-like pontoons to support the bridge deck and its dynamic loads. While pontoon bridges are usually t...
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Civil War Pontoon Bridge ... The photo on the left is from the Library of Congress and shows the rubber pontoons which were manufactured by The Goodyear Rubber Company on display in London in 1851. The process of vulcanizing rubber was invented ten years before the Civil War by Charles Goodyear but the U.S.
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pontoon bridge n : a temporary bridge built over a series of pontoons [syn: ... bridge or connection between two points of the apparatus; -- invented by Sir ...
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; {Pontoon bridge}, a bridge formed with pontoons. {Pontoon train}, the carriages of the pontoons, and the materials they carry for making a pontoon bridge. ... -- invented by Sir; Charles Wheatstone.
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floating bridge, used primarily but not invariably for military purposes. A pontoon bridge was constructed in 480 BC by Persian engineers to transport Xerxes' invading army across the Hellespont (Dardanelles). ... Learn more about pontoon bridge with a free trial on Britannica.com ... Who invented the po...
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Message - Re: Floating Bridge ... Julius Caesar, I believe, invented a pontoon-style bridge.... The US Army (and other armies, I'm sure) ,once had an entire unit ready to bridge the Rhine at a moment's notice using pontoons....
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invented a pontoon bridge, suitable for army use, which he had patented; 1836, promoted to Colonel U. S. A., and placed in command of a post In Florida, where he suddenly died, Oct. 19. 1836. LYON, AMASA UDOLPHIN, A. B. Yale 1834;
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We waste too much time as it is, arguing if a Filipino really invented the fluorescent light, was responsible for the moon buggy, or invented the pontoon bridge used in World War II. Or we get defensive over Filipinos being responsible for sensational computer viruses.
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PONTOON (Fr. ponton, from Lat. pons, a bridge) , a flat-bottomed boat, used as a ferry boat or lighter; especially a boat of particular ... Experiments were then undertaken with the bipartite pontoon. The india-rubber pontoon does not appear to have been generally employed even in America, where it was invented.
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