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    Building the Golden Gate Bridge: An Interactive Engineering Adventure
    Building the Golden Gate Bridge: An Interactive Engineering Adventure
    Building the Golden Gate Bridge: An Interactive Engineering Adventure
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    Building the Golden Gate Bridge: An Interactive Engineering Adventure

    By Blake Hoena

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    People living in San Francisco during the 1920s and 1930s are fascinated by the project to build the Golden Gate Bridge the worlds longest suspension bridge yet. Will you: Be a designer of the bridge, working to solve the many challenges created by such an enormous project? Work as a crewmember, accepting the dangers of laboring hundreds of feet in the air above the cold, swirling currents of San Francisco Bay? Experience situations taken from real life. YOU CHOOSE what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you to success or to failure.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateJul 1, 2014
    ISBN9781491428863
    Building the Golden Gate Bridge: An Interactive Engineering Adventure
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    Blake Hoena

    An editor and script doctor extraordinaire, Blake is also an author of dozens of graphic novels. His published works have been licensed through DC Comics, National Geographic Kids, and Sports Illustrated Kids.

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      Book preview

      Building the Golden Gate Bridge - Blake Hoena

      ABOUT YOUR

      ADVENTURE

      YOU live in the exciting days of the early 1900s. Amazing new bridges and structures are being constructed. The boldest project yet is starting up—a bridge across California’s Golden Gate strait. What part will you play in this great undertaking?

      In this book you’ll explore how the choices people made meant the difference between life and death. The events you’ll experience happened to real people.

      Chapter One sets the scene. Then you choose which path to read. Follow the links at the bottom of each page. After you finish one path, go back and read the others. Use your device’s back buttons or page navigation to jump back to your last choice. Then try a different link for a new adventure.

      YOU CHOOSE the path you take through history.

      For the best You Choose experience,

      view in portrait (vertical) orientation.

      CHAPTER 1

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      Spanning the Golden Gate

      When James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, people from around the world flocked to California. After the discovery of silver in 1859 in neighboring Nevada, the region was booming. Many hopeful fortune seekers chose to brave the dangers of venturing west by land. For the tens of thousands who chose to travel by boat, the small village of San Francisco was often their destination.

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      While building a sawmill for Captain John Sutter at Sutter’s Mill, James Marshall spotted several gold flakes in the river water. He tried to keep his discovery secret, but word spread. These few flakes had triggered the California Gold Rush of 1849.

      The rising population spurred economic growth, creating a demand for new businesses. Hotels and restaurants opened to house and feed newcomers. Then came banks and factories. In 1860 the population of the San Francisco Bay area was slightly more than 100,000. Fifty years later, it had risen to about 1 million.

      During this time period, Henry Ford popularized the Model T car. It was the first affordable car for an average family. By 1910 more than 40,000 cars were sputtering along California’s roads. In less than 10 years, that number grew to half a million.

      All those cars began causing traffic problems. Roads needed to be paved. Bridges needed to be built. To San Francisco, with its growing population and booming economy, these were major issues.

      San Francisco is surrounded by water on three sides, with the Pacific Ocean to the west and San Francisco Bay to the east. Connecting these two bodies of water is the Golden Gate, a three-mile strait forming the city’s northern border.

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      This 1925 map shows the Golden Gate strait. San Francisco is south of the strait and Marin County is north.

      Despite having jobs in San Francisco, many workers lived outside of the city where housing was more affordable. But with water all around, there were few ways for them to get in and out of the city. People in Marin County and other northern counties relied on ferries to carry them and their cars across the water. During the 1920s thousands traveled by ferry each day. Ferry services could barely keep up with demand. Sometimes it could take hours to get across the Bay. During busy holidays the trip could take days as cars backed up for miles and miles

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