Occasional Electronic Publication No. 1 - Society for Industrial ...
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Beard- -Boles<br />
Beard, James<br />
41,594 Feb. 16, 1864 *Jointed segmental iron arch. <strong>No</strong> horizontal tie. Labeled “truss.”<br />
Beer, Walter<br />
609,001 Aug. 16, 1898 Trussed tied arch. Supported on two cantilevered inverted trusses.<br />
Labeled “construction of metal bridges.”<br />
Bender, Charles – also see Bender, Latrobe & Smith<br />
76,041 Mar. 31, 1868 Inverted bowstring truss. Wire bottom chord approximates bending<br />
moment curve. Suspended roadway.<br />
Bender, Charles, Charles H. Latrobe & C. Shaler Smith<br />
141,310 Jul. 29, 1873 Hinged cantilevered truss. Tied back to abutment.<br />
Berry, D.<br />
26,156 <strong>No</strong>v. 22, 1859 *Automatic sliding drawbridge. Labeled “canal bridge.”<br />
Bevan, John<br />
7,374 May 21, 1850 *Metal tied arch. Wire-rope horizontal tie. Web consists of verticals<br />
only. Labeled "arched girder.”<br />
Bishop, Goodwin<br />
27,963 Apr. 24, 1860 *Tied arch. Surmounted by a Howe-configured trussed arch with a web<br />
of crossed struts and vertical ties, plus an additional layer of doubleintersecting<br />
diagonal ties. The tied-arch chord serves as the bottom<br />
chord of the trussed-arch above.<br />
Bissell, Sylvester<br />
237,471 Feb. 8, 1881 *Arch. Post-tensioned masonry blocks.<br />
Black, William (Urbana Bridge Co., Urbana, Oh.)<br />
166,960 Aug. 24, 1875 Inverted bowstring truss. Tension arc. Roadbed is suspended from lower<br />
chord.<br />
Blackman, Green & Thomas Blackman<br />
309,289 Dec.16, 1884 Timber Howe truss. Crossed diagonals. Vertical metal rods. Posttensioning<br />
wire rope connecting floor beams below bottom chord.<br />
Blair, Benjamin<br />
568,830 Oct.6, 1896 *Culvert. Clay tile arch. Labeled “bridge.”<br />
Bogardus, Ova<br />
150,515 May 5, 1874 Curved-chord double-intersection Warren truss. Verticals at all panel<br />
points. Some Howe and Pratt truss characteristics. Top chord and web<br />
struts are pipe sections. Verticals and bottom chord are bars. Tension<br />
rod inside diagonal pipe struts. Horizontal panel lengths increase<br />
toward mid-span, permitting diagonals to be parallel.<br />
Boles, John Jr.<br />
38,552 May 19, 1863 Truss with web of annuli rings and verticals backed by a full-span arch.<br />
Exuberantly fanciful.<br />
47,920 May 30, 1865 Truss with U-shaped, curved, web braces plus variety of full-span ties<br />
and arches. Exuberantly fanciful.<br />
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