The INSANE Engineering of the Golden Gate Bridge - #41
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The Golden Gate Bridge and the Panama Canal
This was the biggest of its kind. They had built suspension bridges before, but something like this big in this location. This was part of, along with the Hoover Dam, part of steering the US through the Great Depression. I love looking at the Golden Gate Bridge towers and thinking those bits of steel came through the Panama Canal. It's just a completely different part of the globe, isn't it? It's way down in Central America. That's wild. The numbers here are blowing me away, you know,. And the fact that again, this was done without computers and programming and was, sorry, if I'm stopping the flow, was this like the first of its kind on this
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