WHO INITIATED THE
FIRST SUSPENSION BRIDGE?
G'day folks,
The Inca people of South America were noted
for making durable suspension bridges by weaving mountain grasses and
other vegetation into thick cables. These sturdy ropes were ideal for
crossing long gorges and were called simp’achaka, which means “braided
bridges.”
Workers would create the cables at the site where the bridge
was to be erected and it was a technique that was used centuries later
for the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City in 1864.
Many of these suspension bridges stretched longer than what even
European engineers of the time had made with stone. Today, the last
remaining Incan-style grass cable suspension bridge, the Queshuachaca,
can be found over a gorge in Peru’s Canas Province.
Clancy's comment: I've walked on some of these bridges and did so with great fear.
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