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Tower Bridge was built over 130 years ago to ease road traffic while maintaining river access to the busy Pool of London docks. Built with giant movable roadways that lift up for passing ships, it is to this day considered an engineering marvel and beyond being one of London’s favourite icons, it is arguably one of the most famous and instantly recognisable structures in the entire world.
Dec 8, 2023 · 1894 (30 June): Tower Bridge is formally opened by the Prince of Wales and his wife, Princess Alexandra. It has taken 11,000 tons of steel, 70,000 tons of concrete and 22,000 litres of paint. The ...
These days Tower Bridge is electrically powered, and lifts around 800 times a year (as often as 10 times a day in summer). The best spot to see it raised is at the 11m-long glass walkways of the Tower Bridge Exhibition, 42m above the river. Views plunge into the Thames, outshining the story of the bridge's construction, which is also recounted ...
The construction of Tower Bridge commenced on 22 April 1886 and lasted for eight years. About 432 construction workers participated in the project every day, building the 200-foot tall, 800-foot long, and 250-foot wide structure. The foundations submerged in the riverbed measured at a depth of almost 8m, and around 31,000,000 bricks were used ...
Tower Bridge je kombinovaný visutý a zvedací most v Londýně nad řekou Temží. Stojí nedaleko hradu Tower a spojuje londýnské City s městskou částí Tower Hamlets, která hraničí se čtvrtí Southwark. Někdy bývá chybně zaměňován s London Bridge, který stojí o necelý kilometr dále proti proudu.
Tower Bridge, one of the London’s most famous landmarks, is a bascule and suspension bridge on River Thames. It has two towers, in Victorian Gothic style, that are connected with two walkways that are constructed so they can resist horizontal forces from suspended parts of the bridge. Base of each tower holds machines that lift two parts of ...
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