Last weekend, we spent some time in the city. The highlight was the walk on Brooklyn bridge towards Manhattan. I have this love for bridges that I inherited from my dad. The Manhattan skyline, statue of liberty, Queens and Verrazano bridges on either side does take away an average tourist's attention from the bridge they are on but that does not make the Brooklyn Bridge any less of an architectural wonder.
The foundation of Brooklyn bridge was built using a dangerous and interesting engineering technique called open caisson. An open caisson is a pressurized bottomless chamber that is sunk into the water until it hits the river bed. There are people inside this pressurized chamber digging out clay and debris until the chamber settles on a solid surface like rock. Once that is done, the workers get out of the caisson and concrete is poured into it thus forming a solid concrete foundation for the bridge.Read more about the bridge here.
D's glee says she wasn't bored at all.
Btw Clinton Eastwood and Murugan lives in Youtube. Watch this one.
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