How cool is this! I’ve seen some funky bridges in my time - including the swinging bridge at the Cape Town Waterfront that apparently won some design awards. But I think this one takes the cake, or swings the bridge…which ever you prefer.
This funky bridge rolls up like a shongololo in order to open the way for water traffic. Made of wood and steel it doesn’t look like anything special until it rolls itself up.
Rather than a conventional opening bridge mechanism, consisting of a single rigid element that lifts to let boats pass, the Rolling Bridge gets out of the way by curling up until its two ends touch. While in its horizontal position, the bridge is a normal, inconspicuous steel and timber footbridge; fully open, it forms a circle on one bank of the water that bears little resemblance to its former self. Twelve metres long, the bridge is made in eight steel and timber sections, and is made to curl by hydraulic rams set into the handrail between each section.
This post might be related to Would you walk on this?,Jeep Waterfall,Woodmans Timber Merchants,Score yourself a DVD of Music…,McNaught Comet over Cape Town - Images,. See other posts from the 'Tech Stuff' category.
Its a hard disk in 1956.... HDD with 5MB storage in 1956. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data. Start appreciating your 1 GB memory ...
For the last 4 or 5 years that I've been using WordPress, I've managed to pick up a good few tips and tricks. 90% of my clients are sites who require content management systems, not blogs. And thus I've been able to create highly tweaked ...
A blind man wanders into an all-girls biker bar by mistake. He finds his way to a bar stool and orders some coffee. After sitting there for awhile, he yells to the waiter, 'Hey, you want to hear a blonde joke? The bar immediately falls absolutely silent. ...
Best part is when the dog looks up at the cat like... WTF are you doing...
Kulula is an Airline with head office situated in Johannesburg. Kulula airline attendants make an effort to make the in-flight "safety lecture" and announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some Real examples that have been heard or reported: On a Kulula flight, (there is no assigned seating, ...
Leave a Reply