River Over A River

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> The Magdeburg Water Bridge in Germany, is one of the strangest bridges of the world because it is designed for the transit of ships on the river Elbe in Germany.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> The length of this waterway is 918 meters and width 43 ​​meters and connecting channels between the Alps and Mitiland Havel in Germany.</div> <div style="background-color: white; 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box-shadow: rgb(136, 136, 136) 5px 5px 5px; padding: 4px;" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> The fallopian Alp Havel and Mitiland are connected with an old waterway where ships is passing through it across the river Elbe to a distance of 12 miles, and there was a annoying problem is the low water levels in the river Elbe was required ponds to raise and lower ships as they move to and from the River Elbe, and this process was Request time and effort, so engineers search for other ways to link with some of the channels was the idea is to bridge passes over the river.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> Interestingly, the project is not new, but work began in the thirties of the last century, and then stopped because of World War II and after because of the division of Germany until he returned work on in 1997, completed construction and was inaugurated for the passage of vessels after 6 years in 2003.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> The bridge cost $ 727 million and 24,000 tons of steel and 68,000 cubic meters of cement were used for canal basin. To imagine the size of this engineering achievement imagine that this bridge holds 134 thousand tons of water to be able to raise large ships.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'segoe ui'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> Source :- http://www.unbelievableinfo.com/2013/12/river-over-river.html</div> </div>

River Over A River

The Magdeburg Water Bridge in Germany, is one of the strangest bridges of the world because it is designed for the transit of ships on the...

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