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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 :-)
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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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
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