In Pics - Modern Wonders Of India
at Friday, 27 April 2007
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Water Bridge Over River !
at Wednesday, 25 April 2007
Hard to believe?
But you have to. The water bridge is in Germany. The 918 meters long bridge took six years and 500 million euros to complete.
It is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany, as part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg, near Berlin.
To those who appreciate engineering projects, here's a puzzle for you armchair engineers and physicists. Did that bridge have to be designed to withstand the additional weight of ship and barge traffic, or just the weight of the water?
Answer: It only needs to be designed to withstand the weight of the water! Why? A ship always displaces an amount of water that weighs the same as the ship,regardless of how heavily a ship may be loaded.