Ginsberg

=** __ Camille Ginsburg __ **=

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 * 1) What is the name of the bridge?-The name of my bridge is the Golden Gate Bridge.
 * 2) When and where was the bridgebuilt?-The Golden Gate Bridge was built in San Francisco, California in 1937.
 * 3) What is the purpose of this bridge? What does it span and what does it connect?-The purpose of this bridge to connect the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County, if the bridge wasn't built people would still have to either drive around the bay or take a fairy through it and that takes a lot longer. The Golden Gate Bridge spans over the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean.
 * 4) What type of bridge is it (arch, suspension, cable, beam, etc.)?The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge.
 * 5) How much did it cost?-This Bridge cost $35,000,000 to build.
 * 6) What materials were used to build this bridge?-Over one million tons of concrete and steel were used to build the Golden Gate Bridge.
 * 7) What were some of the special challenges that the bridge engineers faced? How did they overcome these challenges?-The only challenge they faced when building the bridge was that people who were working on the bridge would fall off and die, so to fix this problem they put safety nets under the bridge to catch people when they fall so that they don't die.
 * 8) How long did it take to build this bridge?-The complete building of the bridge took about three years total.
 * 9) What are the measurements of this bridge?-The span of the bridge is 4,200 feet, the towers are 746 feet high, it is 220 feet above the water, it weighs 887,000 tons, each tower weighs 44,000 tons.
 * 10) Did you find any fun or interesting facts or stories about this bridge?-Some of the interesting facts that I found about my bridge are, Joseph Strauss (the builder of the bridge) distributed bribes to members of the San Francisco Board of supervisors to secure their support for his project. Also in 2007, the Golden Gate Bridge ranked fifth on the list of America's Favorite Architecture by the American Institute of Architects. Another fact is that on average, about 40 million vehicles cross the Golden Gate Bridge every year. Lastly the orange-red color of the bridge was chosen by builder Joseph Strauss because he felt it went great with the setting around it.

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