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  • Thumbnail for Truck scale
    A truck scale (US), weighbridge (non-US) or railroad scale is a large set of scales, usually mounted permanently on a concrete foundation, that is used...
    15 KB (1,929 words) - 04:55, 25 January 2024
  • Scale Lane Footbridge is an apostrophe-shaped pedestrian swing bridge in Hull, England. The bridge has a rotating mechanism, allowing it to swing open...
    10 KB (710 words) - 19:02, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bascule bridge
    The name comes from the French term for balance scale, which employs the same principle. Bascule bridges are the most common type of movable span because...
    6 KB (498 words) - 16:18, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Logarithmic scale
    A logarithmic scale (or log scale) is a method used to display numerical data that spans a broad range of values, especially when there are significant...
    13 KB (1,197 words) - 21:44, 22 October 2024
  • The Fujita scale (F-Scale; /fuˈdʒiːtə/), or Fujita–Pearson scale (FPP scale), is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes...
    25 KB (1,928 words) - 22:59, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kardashev scale
    The Kardashev scale (Russian: Шкала́ Кардашёва, romanized: Shkalá Kardashova) is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement...
    140 KB (16,698 words) - 22:55, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Weighing scale
    A scale or balance is a device used to measure weight or mass. These are also known as mass scales, weight scales, mass balances, massometers, and weight...
    42 KB (5,291 words) - 18:42, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seán O'Casey Bridge
    Structural Engineers Award for Pedestrian Bridges in 2006), the bridge was built in 2005 as part of a large-scale urban renewal scheme under the Dublin Docklands...
    4 KB (271 words) - 16:43, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Linear scale
    A linear scale, also called a bar scale, scale bar, graphic scale, or graphical scale, is a means of visually showing the scale of a map, nautical chart...
    6 KB (605 words) - 06:42, 18 May 2024
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    include a 3-dimensional scale model of a building or the scale drawings of the elevations or plans of a building. In such cases the scale is dimensionless and...
    4 KB (511 words) - 11:57, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bogibeel Bridge
    India's first bridge to have fully welded steel-concrete support beams that can withstand earthquakes of magnitudes up to 7 on the Richter scale. It is Asia's...
    16 KB (1,598 words) - 18:22, 17 October 2024
  • The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS) measures the effects of an earthquake at a given location. This is in contrast with the seismic...
    25 KB (2,031 words) - 11:17, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marco Polo Bridge incident
    The Marco Polo Bridge incident, also known as the Lugou Bridge incident or the July 7 incident, was a battle during July 1937 in the district of Beijing...
    24 KB (2,418 words) - 05:16, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brooklyn Bridge
    The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn...
    246 KB (22,826 words) - 08:41, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tsing Ma Bridge
    Tsing Ma Bridge is a bridge in Hong Kong. It is the world's 17th-longest span suspension bridge, and was the second longest at the time of its completion...
    23 KB (2,528 words) - 02:51, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Golden Gate Bridge
    railroad bridge across the Bering Strait. At the time, Strauss had completed some 400 drawbridges—most of which were inland—and nothing on the scale of the...
    106 KB (10,274 words) - 23:40, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scale of harmonics
    the distance from the fret to the bridge (see: superparticular number). On the guqin, the left end of the dotted scale is a mirror image of the right end...
    5 KB (652 words) - 07:44, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
    The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (/ˌvɛrəˈzɑːnoʊ/ VERR-ə-ZAH-noh; also referred to as the Narrows Bridge, the Verrazzano Bridge, and simply the Verrazzano)...
    217 KB (19,246 words) - 10:20, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hammered dulcimer
    the bass bridge to the treble bridge is required because the bass bridge's fourth string G is the start of the lower tetrachord of the G scale. The player...
    18 KB (1,960 words) - 13:26, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tay Bridge
    report. In 2003, the bridge was strengthened and refurbished, winning a British Construction Industry Engineering Award to mark the scale and difficulty of...
    36 KB (4,816 words) - 22:11, 2 November 2024
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