Suspension Bridges: The Battle of the Cable
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Suspension Bridges: The Battle of the Cable
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Suspension Bridges: The Battle of the Cable
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Originally produced by The Teaching Company/The Great Courses in 2011
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32
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After learning the science behind suspension bridges, begin your two-episode look at these structural marvels. Here, relive the Battle of the Cable, in which 19th-century engineers struggled over whether to build suspension cables from iron chains (as in England's Menai Strait Bridge) or steel wire (as in the Brooklyn Bridge)
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