CME 111 Midterm Structures

at UIC 2024. Only need to know who engineered it, where at (country or one city it connects to if bridge), and what year. Innovations or importance will be noted as well. All parathesis are optional info.

Iron Bridge

Darby III

UK (Coalbrookdale over Severn River, England)

1779

First bridge to be made out of iron and not stone or wood

Mythe Bridge

Telford

UK (Tewkesbury, England)

1812-1814

X bracing perpendicular to arch

Menai Bridge

Telford

UK (Wales)

1826

1st engineered suspension bridge (fails later)

Paddington Station

Brunel

UK (London)

1854

First public bus service 1829, first underground passenger railway 1862, first airport rail link in 1998

Saltash Bridge

Brunel

Plymouth to Saltash

1859

Combining suspension and arched bridge designs

Britannia Bridge

Stephenson

UK (Menai straits)

1850

Lower level railway while having the upper level be a carriage road

Brooklyn Bridge

Roebling

NY USA (Brooklyn to Manhattan)

1870-1883

First suspension bridge to use steel cables

Eads Bridge

Eads

MO (St Louis)

1874

First major steel bridge, and first true parabolic arch (failed in wind)

Firth of Forth Bridge

Baker

Scotland

1890

Multi-span cantilever bridge, first major structure in Britain to be made of steel

Garabit Viaduct

Eiffel

France (near Ruynes-en-Margeride)

1884

Was one of the tallest bridges in the world, use of hinges

Eiffel Tower

Eiffel

France (Paris)

1889

Tallest structure when completed, symbol of France

Bayonne Bridge

Ammann

NJ (Staten Island to Jersey City)

1931

Longest steel-arch bridge for 56 years, first to use manganese steel

George Washing Bridge

Amman

NY (New York to Fort Lee, NJ)

1931

Longest spanning arch at the time, use for vehicles (14 lanes now)

Verrazano Narrows Bridge

Ammann

NY (NYC)

1964

Longest bridge to date in US

Golden Gate Bridge

Strauss

San Francisco

1937

Longest until Verrazano Narrows, deflection theory

Leiter building

Jenney

Chicago

1879

First skyscraper in Chicago, glass curtain wall, landmark for chicago school of architecture, skeleton structure

Carson Pirie Scott

Adler and Sullivan

Chicago

1899

Last major Sullivan structure, has Target at lower level

Rookery

Burnham and Root

Chicago

1888

Oldest standing skyscraper in chicago, light court

Reliance building

Burnham and Atwood and Shankland (and Root)

Chicago

1895

Class curtain foreshadowed international style

Empire State Building

Shreve, Lamb, Harmon (Balcom)

NY (NYC)

1931

Tallest building when completed,

World Trade Center

Robertson Associates

NY (NYC)

1974

Symbol of economic prosperity and globalization of the US