The other Fink deck truss remaining is the Puenta Bolivar in Arequipa, Peru, built in 1882 by Gustav Eifel. This included the following Fink deck truss bridges: the Appomatox High Bridge in Virginia– built in 1869 and featured 21 Fink deck truss spans, the Verrugas Viaduct in Peru– named after the virus that inflicted the workers who constructed the highest bridge in Peru with three Fink deck truss spans in 1869, the Lynchburg Bridge in Virginia– built in 1870 and is the last of its kind in the US and one of two known bridges left in the world. Many trusses built with this design were in the name of the German bridge engineer, who was born in Lauterbach in Hesse and emigrated to New York after completing his engineering degree in Darmstadt. Invented and patented in 1854 by Albert Fink, the truss design features a combination of Warren and Bollmann trusses, and with the diagonal beams criss-crossing the panels, especially the deck trusses resembled a triangle with many subdivided beams. The Fink Truss: one of the most unusual of truss bridge types ever designed and built. Houston Street Bridge in San Antonio Photo courtesy of Texas Transportation Museum Bridges of Amsterdam | Bruggen van Amsterdam.The Bridges of Glauchau (Saxony), Germany.Iron Bridge at Aue Closed for Rehabilitation.More Photos The Bridgehunter´s Chronicles on YouTube
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