Golden Gate Bridge

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History
Before the bridge was built the only
way across the San Francisco Bay was
by boat. A ferry service began in
1820 with a regular schedule of
transporting water to San Francisco.
Many wanted a bridge to connect San
Francisco to Marin County . Many
experts said a bridge could not be
built across a strait that had strong
swirling tide and currents. San
Francisco city engineer estimated it
at one hundred million which at the
time sounded preposterous. He asked
bridge engineers if it could be built
for less . The one who responded was
Joseph Strauss. The Southern Pacific
Railroad files a lawsuit against the
project which led to a mass boycott of
the ferry service. Irving Morrow
designed the shape of the bridge
towers, lighting scheme, tower
decorations, streetlights, railings, and
walkways. Charles Alton Ellis did most
of the technical and theoretical work
that built the bridge .

Acknowledgements / Resources

Alban Alba-Castillo
Woodrow Wilson HS

Details
1. Length:1.7 miles/Width:90ft/Height:746 ft
2.San Francisco, California
3. Joseph Strauss, Irving Morrow , Charles
Ellis
4.January 5, 1933 to April 19, 1937
5.Maintained by the Golden Gate Bridge
,Highway and transportation district
6. Daily traffic- 110,000
7. Opened May 27, 1937 about 79 years
ago
8.Design characteristics suspension, truss
arch and truss causeways
9.One of the seven wonders of the world
10. It opened in 1937 and was, until 1964,
the longest suspension bridge main span in
the world, at 4,200 feet (1,300 m).
11. The Frommer's travel guide describes
the Golden Gate Bridge as "possibly the
most beautiful, certainly the most
photographed, bridge in the world.

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Conclusions
The designer could have talked to his
coworkers about certain problems.
This building is important if you have
plans of building a bridge with the
same problems. I think the overall
process of building this bridge was ok.
The bridge is one of the greatest
achievements to architectural history.
The designers should have confirmed
a final design instead of building a
bridge on a bridge. There should have
been more safety measures. The net
that was suspended below the bridge
should have been to reinforced to
prevent the deaths of ten workers and
injuries of two. They should have also
made sure they were financially
secured before beginning construction.

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