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Period: 2000 BCE to 2000 BCE
Fallen tree spans the gap
Fallen trees spanned gaps e.g. between cliffs. People in the Stone Age used the trees to get to places. -
Period: 2000 BCE to 2000 BCE
Planks used to cross rivers
Planks were used to cross the width of a river back then. -
Period: 1380 BCE to 1380
Clapper bridges
These are ancient bridges that are most common in the U.K. These bridges were built with long, thin slabs of stone to make a beam-type deck and with large rocks or blocklike piles of stones for piers. -
Period: 1300 BCE to 1300 BCE
Arch bridge
It was a bridge invented in Greece -
Period: 1220 BCE to 1229 BCE
Vine bridges
These were used at least 800 years ago. The bridge allowed men to take their horses to horse grounds for practicing fighting(as there was war going on back then) -
Period: 600 to 700
Tiber bridge
One of the earliest bridges to be built. It was built by the Romans, and it was the first beam bridge -
Period: 1570 to 1570
Truss bridge
A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements usually forming triangular units. The connected elements (typically straight) may be stressed from tension, compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads -
Period: to
Suspension bridge
A bridge in which the weight of the deck is supported by vertical cables suspended from further cables that run between towers and are anchored in abutments at each end. -
Period: to
Viaduct bridges
These aren’t considered bridges by many people, but it was invented by the Romans. It’s a road supported on a number of arches made out of stone. -
Period: to
Cantilever bridge
A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers, structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end. -
Period: to
Cable-stayed bridge
These are more modern bridges. It’s a bridge in which the weight of the deck is supported by a number of cables running directly to one or more towers.