Pasta bridge
Treasure Hunt: Quaint Bridges;
A chance conversation with an old friend brought up our various qualifications, he has a Masters in, of all things, Building and construction which included a portion of civil engineering and he told me that part of his project was to build a bridge using spaghetti! It's a brilliantly unforgiving medium and is great training for engineers :-) he then showed me a recent sample he did with his son... Wow, I gotta have a go at this, it looks like fun! There have been worldwide competitions to find the best spaghetti bridge design and as far as I can work out the latest is a 950 gram bridge that has held (without breaking!) a weight of 456kg. You tube has a selection of record breaking attempts which are all pretty impressive :-)
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Taken on Tuesday May 12, 2015
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Posted on Wednesday May 20, 2015
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Eunice Perkins said:
Valfal said:
Nodule said:
A bridge is a bridge whether it is a model or not and one made of spaghetti could not be more 'quaint'
Modern, well it was made quite recently (actually its two years old I just discovered!) but the design is literally as old as the triangle! There are rope bridges made to this design.
This is as real a bridge as you can get, it spans a gap! A lolly stick between two cups is a bridge!
Maybe you wanted something that would allow a person passage?
I did think this would suffer criticism but not for being a model! :-)
As for Londons Bridges I think the only quaint one is tower bridge and that really is photographed to death, the millennium (wobbly) bridge does not contend as it could not be more modern
Nodule said: