Description
Charles Parsons - Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge.jpg
English:
A lithogram created by Charles Parsons of Charles Ellet's footbridge (completed 1848), the predecessor to Roebling's Suspension Bridge on the same spot
Date
c. June 4, 1849
Source
Buck, Richard (December 1898). "
The Niagara Railway Arch
".
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
40
(836): Plate III. New York: American Society of Civil Engineers. Retrieved on
2009-07-10
.
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