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  • Theodore Cooper's design for the Quebec Bridge over Canada's St. Lawrence River used much lighter structural members.

    March 4, 1890: Bridge Tech Takes a Great Leap Forth 2008

  • Laurier monuments to high living were dotted all over the country in the shape of armouries, post offices, customs houses, docks, courthouses, the Quebec Bridge, and vast systems of unpopulated railways.

    The Masques of Ottawa Domino

  • As the Quebec Bridge had just been completed he formally opened it for traffic, and later on, as

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • In August, 1907, the Quebec Bridge, a similar cantilever design bridge over the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, collapsed, killing 75 people and causing a degree of worry about the Queensboro Bridge construction.

    Queens Gazette BY RICHARD GENTILVISO 2009

  • -- Quebec Bridge (original design)] (6) The Quebec bridge (fig. 25) over the St Lawrence, which collapsed while in course of construction in 1907.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

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