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The Fair Oaks Bridge is a truss bridge over the lower banks of the American River, connecting Fair Oaks to the greater Sacramento, California region. The current bridge, built in 1907, is the third ...
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In 1806 the first patented bridge system, the Burr arch truss was used in the US. The Town truss was invented in 1820, ... The Pratt and Warren trusses were invented between 1838 and 1844. The first trusses were made of wood and used for building homes and roofs. During the 18th and early 19th centuries cast and wrought iron...
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Pratt Truss; The design of the Pratt truss is similar to that of the Howe truss, except for the diagonals that slope downwards in the former. Caleb and Thomas Pratt invented the Pratt truss in the year 1844. The maximum length of this bridge can be 250 feet and it is commonly used as a railway bridge.
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Pennsylvania truss; A subdivided Pratt truss invented for use by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Pennsylvania truss is similar in bracing to a Baltimore truss, but the former has a camelback profile while the latter has angled end posts only, leaving the upper chord straight and horizontal.
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A wooden arch was often stiffened with a Long truss, which was a rectangular wooden truss with iron diagonals in each panel. The Long truss was invented by Stephen H. Long (1784-1864) of the U. S. Army Topographical Service, also a designer of useless locomotives, and a West Point graduate before ... The Pratt truss,
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A year later, on the same location, a wrought iron truss bridge was built at a cost of $31,306. Using the so-called Pratt Truss design invented in 1844 by Thomas and Caleb Pratt, the New Jersey Bridge Company, working under the direction of Grand Rapids city engineer L. W. Anderson, produced a structure of five...
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Most truss types bear the name of the person(s) who developed the pattern, such as the Pratt truss that is named for Caleb and Thomas Pratt who patented it in 1844. For instance, the configuration or pattern of a Pratt and Howe truss appears identical (a series of rectangles with X's), but a Howe's diagonals are...
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7 Fink truss; 8 Belgian truss; 9 Scissor truss; 10 Bowstring truss; 11 Bowstring truss (alternate); 12 Bowstring K-truss; ... 2 Prismatic truss frame; 3 Prismatic truss arch; 4 Folded truss; 5 Folded truss frame; 6 Folded truss vault; ... 4 Pratt truss equilibrium polygons; 5 Braced frame; 6 Braced frame equilibrium polygon;
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Andrea Palladio, a classicist Italian architect of the 16th Century, invented the truss, a self-supporting span, which "was economical to build, ... Thomas and Caleb Pratt patented a combination truss which inverted Howe’s idea by making the diagonals of iron and the compression members of vertical timber. It appears as...
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