Yet, a section of suspension cable for the George Washington Bridge in the collections of the National Museum of American History can only hint at such glories. Three feet in diameter and ten feet ...

The $2 billion project to restore and rehabilitate the George Washington Bridge hit a historic ... think about when crossing ...

Connecting Brooklyn with Staten Island, it is still the longest suspension bridge in the Americas, 11th in the world. The crowning achievement of the structural engineer Othmar Ammann and of New ...

In November of 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington collapsed when high winds caused an aeroelastic flutter. It had opened just 4 months prior as the world's largest suspension bridge ...

Aesthetic, light, and strong, suspension bridges can span distances from 2,000 to 7,000 feet—far longer than any other kind of bridge. They also tend to be the most expensive to build.

A suspension bridge's cables are beautiful to look at, but they also enable the bridge to cross large spans. Make a model suspension bridge to see how it works. After you test the strength of the ...

NEW YORK -- Drivers are facing heavy delays on the George Washington Bridge for the Wednesday morning commute. As of 7 a.m., there was more than an hour wait to get through the toll plaza.