Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel
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Appearances across the corpus
Cited in passing as 17-mile bridge-tunnel illustrating bridge typology variety.
Jerry has been putting material on the Stellar website about marvels of engineering. We're not going to read it in detail. The last chapter I hadn't gone over was about bridges. There are five different basic types of bridges, and they're huge bridges. The Brooklyn Bridge was a marvel of engineering in its day. Here's the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, which is 17 miles long across the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. And there were famous iron bridges.