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Real Travel Adventures
August 2007
Carol White |
Redding's Not-So-Hidden Jewel The Sundial pedestrian bridge connects the two sections of Turtle Bay Exploration Park with grace and splendor.   |
AskMen.com
Norman Brown |
Top 10: Crazy Construction Projects This installment of the Top 10 features all sorts of construction projects -- not just skyscrapers -- that are either in the process of being completed or for which the plans have been finalized. |
Popular Mechanics
September 26, 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
Post-Minneapolis, Engineers Go Gonzo to Bombproof U.S. Bridges Paintball, Nanotechnology and Molecular Band-Aids may sound like a science fair, but these are the gizmos that could prevent terrorists from knocking out your city. |
Wired
January 2005
David Goldenberg |
Spanning the Globe Over the next century, engineers hope to connect five continents with bridges (sorry, Australia and Antarctica). Plans are under way to link Alaska and Russia, Spain and Morocco, India and Sri Lanka. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
Re-engineering the Bay Bridge: Built Quake Tough Engineers knew that returning the bridge to its pre-earthquake state wouldn't be enough. They needed to come up with a solution that could withstand some of the worst that California's fault zones are capable of dishing out. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2, 2009
Chris Sweeney |
The World's 18 Strangest Roadways: Gallery The unique attributes of some far flung highways with comments by engineering experts. |
Popular Mechanics
September 30, 2008
Erik Sofge |
5 Engineering Lessons From the New, Reopened Minnesota Bridge The St. Anthony Falls Bridge reopened months ahead of schedule. Read why the new bridge should set an example for urban planners everywhere. |
Popular Mechanics
October 28, 2009
Cabanatuan & Berton |
Bay Bridge Closed After Repair Falls Apart Three pieces of an emergency repair to the Bay Bridge's cantilever section made over Labor Day weekend snapped and crashed onto the upper deck of the span late Tuesday afternoon. |
Wired
September 2001
Jessie Scanlon |
Suspended Animation Santiago Calatrava has seen the future of architecture and engineering. It is classical. It is mutable. It redefines structural change... |
Popular Mechanics
January 16, 2008
Erin McCarthy |
New Minn. Bridge Plans Arise as Bad Plates Fingered in Collapse New construction on St. Anthony Falls Bridge will make it one of the safest in the country. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2001
Tom Mudd |
Bridge To Bilateralism? Despite high expectations and potential, The Oresund Bridge linking Denmark and Sweden has been a disappointment to date... |
Fast Company
August 8, 2011
Margaret Rhodes |
World Engineers' Convention Here, a look at three structures that bridge the gap between sleek and sustainable. |
Fast Company
February 2010
Linda Tischler |
How Santiago Calatrava's Buildings Marry Engineering With Biology Santiago Calatrava's buildings marry engineering with biology. And they may just be beautiful enough to make Americans care about infrastructure. |
Popular Mechanics
October 29, 2009
Jeff Wise |
Engineers Cite Vibrations, Wind in Bay Bridge Failure Engineers working on San Francisco's ill-starred Bay Bridge have fingered a culprit in the repair job that went awry Tuesday evening |
Popular Mechanics
January 5, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
New Earthquake-Proof Alloy Allows Bridges to Bend but Not Break (With Video!) In a recent test simulating the intensity of a magnitude 8 quake, a 100-ft-long model bridge built with the new earthquake-proof material suffered a little surface damage but remained structurally intact. |
Inc.
December 1, 2009
Kasey Wehrum |
The Business of the Bridge A look at companies that keep a Delaware River bridge afloat. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2009
Prachi Patel |
Despite Stimulus Money, Most U.S. Bridges Might Stay Dumb Sensors are starting to prove themselves in the biggest, most complex bridges, but the technology isn't ready for the hundreds of thousands of smaller ones |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Erik Sofge |
Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure American infrastructure is in trouble, from collapsed bridges to leaking dams. Here are some fresh ideas, smart engineering and new technology that can be used to fix it. |
Popular Mechanics
July 15, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Inside the New Harry Potter Movie's VFX Tech In the newest film, ingenious special technical effects were created for the Millennium Bridge collapse sequence and the Inferi creatures. |
Popular Mechanics
December 8, 2009
Erik Sofge |
The Top 5 Engineering Projects of 2009 These projects involved tunnels, bridges, earthquake proofing, and environmental enhancements. |
Popular Mechanics
February 12, 2008
Matt Sullivan |
Dubai's Mile-Long Super Bridge Set for March Construction Leave it to Dubai to build a bridge way harder, faster and stronger. |
Wired
January 19, 2009
Candice Chan |
Thwarting Disaster: Bridges That Can Withstand Anything Three new approaches to building infrastructures that can handle extreme temperatures, high winds, and earthquakes. |
Fast Company
May 2012
Lindsey Kratochwill |
Smart Design Makes Europe's Tallest Skyscraper One Of Its Safest Upon completion this month, the London Bridge Shard Building will be the tallest in the European Union, at 1,016 feet. As one of the first planned skyscrapers to be approved for construction after the 9/11 attacks, it offers ultra-secure safety features. |
Science News
November 10, 2001 |
TimeLine: November 7, 1931 Hudson River bridge rivaled for fame by new arches... New device lessens danger from treatment with X-rays... Floodlights to illuminate Washington Monument... |
Science News
February 7, 2004 |
TimeLine: February 3, 1934 Short-wave phone system serves bridge builders... Chance discovery may yield metal-plating method... Superiority predicted for rotating-wing aircraft |
Smithsonian
May 2007
Whitney Dangerfield |
Saving Machu Picchu Will the opening of a bridge give new life to the surrounding community or further encroach upon the World Heritage Site? |
Outside
February 2006
Tim Sohn |
Huge Base jumper Miles Daisher wants to throw himself off a deliriously high bridge in idaho, crawl his way back to the top, and repeat 50 times in 24 hours. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2012
Joan Beaudoin |
A Framework for Contextual Metadata Used in the Digital Preservation of Cultural Objects Contextual information is fundamental to understanding many aspects about digital content. The framework presented here was developed to accommodate recording this critical information. |
Science News
January 26, 2002 |
TimeLine: January 23, 1932 Floodlights illuminate London's Tower Bridge... Anemia treated by injection of liver extract into vein... New speed record established by distant part of the universe... |
Real Travel Adventures
December 2007
Charmaine Shucker |
Amazing Royal Gorge and Its Historic Railroad Lovely scenery, food and a little excitement all at one location. |
AskMen.com
Alex Muniz |
Timeless Eyeglasses It can be a little overwhelming to walk into an eyeglass store and see shelf after shelf of frames. So here are a few classic eyewear styles, innovations and tips that the modern man needs to know if he is in the market for new spectacles. |
Science News
September 23, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Euler's Bridges A well-known puzzle about bridges led to a pioneering paper in mathematical theory and topology. |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
How To: Burn Bridges We all know how to burn a bridge with reckless abandon. What we may not know is how to sever our ties without third-degree burns. |
Entrepreneur
August 2004
Amanda C. Kooser |
Out in the Cold? If Wi-Fi "cold spots" are leaving you in the lurch, try these solutions. |
World War II
Ronald J. Drez |
Forgotten Fate of D-Day's Glider Four The 6th Airborne Division's objective was to seize and hold two bridges east of the Normandy beachhead. One small element of lost souls briefly took a third. |
Civil War Times
March 2007
Richard F. Welch |
Burning High Bridge: The South's Last Hope The Army of Northern Virginia's final opportunity to escape Grant's net disappeared on the banks of the Appomattox -- along with the dream of a Confederate nation. |
Science News
January 22, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Thirteen Spades Your mathematical chance of receiving such a hand in bridge is one in 635,013,559,600 deals. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2006
Steven Cass |
Learning From Failure In his latest engaging and readable book, Success Through Failure, design guru Henry Petroski analyzes the cycle of mechanical failures and other flaws in the things around us to show that the old truism "nothing succeeds like success" is in fact a recipe for doom. |
Outside
May 2006 |
Bridge Climbing Cincinnati-based Purple People Bridge Climb has received permission to lead patrons on half-mile scrambles from Newport, Kentucky, across five spans of the Ohio River's Purple People Pedestrian Bridge, and back to Cincinnati. |
National Real Estate Investor
July 1, 2005 |
In Progress: Bridge Pointe Corporate Centre III Developer: Equity Office Properties Trust... Location: San Diego, Calif... Cost: $36 million... etc. |
The Motley Fool
December 29, 2009
Kris Eddy |
Will People Really Pay for That? What could your companies sell, besides stock, to make money? |
Outside
February 2009
Amy Marr |
Spring Forward Get a full view of the Golden Gate Bridge at Cavallo Point, a 46-building resort on a renovated army base in the Golden Gate National Parks. |
