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  • Thumbnail for Bascule bridge
    bascule bridge (also referred to as a drawbridge or a lifting bridge) is a moveable bridge with a counterweight that continuously balances a span, or leaf, throughout...
    6 KB (498 words) - 16:18, 8 June 2024
  • Black-bridged leaf turtle may refer to: Western black-bridged leaf turtle (Cyclemys atripons), an Asian leaf turtle found in Cambodia, East Thailand, and...
    420 bytes (96 words) - 05:09, 25 February 2021
  • Thumbnail for Pamban Bridge
    rail bridge is, for the most part, a conventional bridge resting on concrete piers but has a double-leaf bascule section midway, which can be raised to let...
    11 KB (1,075 words) - 12:18, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leaf River Bridge (Greene County, Mississippi)
    Leaf River Bridge was constructed in 1907 and spans the Leaf River in Greene County, Mississippi. When a new bridge was constructed across the Leaf River...
    3 KB (184 words) - 04:49, 4 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Kinzie Street Bridge
    The Kinzie Street Bridge is a single-leaf bascule bridge built in 1909 that spans the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States. In April...
    5 KB (206 words) - 01:22, 25 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Eastern black-bridged leaf turtle
    The eastern black-bridged leaf turtle (Cyclemys pulchristiata) is a species of Asian leaf turtles found in southern Indochina. In this species, the carapace...
    5 KB (427 words) - 04:29, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Whirlpool Rapids Bridge
    2012. Currently the Maple Leaf train service, jointly operated by Amtrak and Via Rail, is the only train to use the bridge; CN routes freight over the...
    11 KB (999 words) - 06:00, 3 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tilt bridge
    connected to fixed pivot points a few feet downstream from the bridge leaf. A selection of tilt bridges Sint-Annabrug in Aalst, Belgium Sint-Annabrug raised to...
    3 KB (313 words) - 06:54, 20 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Western black-bridged leaf turtle
    The western black-bridged leaf turtle (Cyclemys atripons) is a species of Asian leaf turtle found in southern Indochina. The carapace of this species is...
    4 KB (369 words) - 11:04, 23 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hanover Street Bridge
    The Hanover Street Bridge, officially the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge, is a double leaf bascule bridge crossing the middle branch of the Patapsco...
    8 KB (681 words) - 19:16, 7 June 2024
  • Single-leaf may refer to: Single-leaf ash, a deciduous tree Single Leaf Bat, a mammal Single leaf bridge, a movable truss bridge with an elevated counterweight...
    388 bytes (88 words) - 20:55, 26 August 2009
  • Thumbnail for Outer Drive Bridge
    Outer Drive bridge project, showing a possible saving of $11,797,000.[citation needed] According to Engineering News-Record, "Each leaf is to be operated...
    9 KB (886 words) - 05:14, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joseph Strauss (engineer)
    is still in daily use. He also designed Palace Bridge (Dvortsovy) double-leaf Strauss bascule bridge over Neva River in St. Petersburg (then Petrograd)...
    11 KB (1,210 words) - 23:13, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Salmon Bay Bridge
    Bridge, also known as Bridge 6.3 on the BNSF railroad, formerly Bridge No. 4 on the Great Northern Railroad, is a Strauss Heel-trunnion single-leaf bascule...
    6 KB (344 words) - 02:59, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for U.S. Route 23 in Michigan
    kind before World War II. It was built as a "two-leaf bridge in a place where a single-leaf bridge probably would have sufficed." The initial construction...
    73 KB (7,649 words) - 17:48, 3 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seventh Street–Black River Bridge
    Historic Places in 2000. It is the only single-leaf bascule bridge in the state of Michigan. A bridge was constructed in this location in about 1875....
    4 KB (411 words) - 00:22, 5 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for University Bridge (Seattle)
    The University Bridge is a double-leaf bascule bridge in Seattle, Washington that carries Eastlake Avenue traffic over Portage Bay between Eastlake to...
    7 KB (668 words) - 21:47, 1 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Johnson Street Bridge
    Esquimalt Road on the west shore. The current bridge is Canada's largest single-leaf bascule bridge. A low wagon bridge was completed in 1855, which blocked marine...
    22 KB (2,384 words) - 00:23, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clubs (suit)
    In Bridge, Clubs are the lowest suit. Its original French name is Trèfle which means "clover" and the card symbol depicts a three-leafed clover leaf. The...
    5 KB (435 words) - 11:15, 12 April 2024
  • Leaf wetness is a meteorological parameter that describes the amount of dew and precipitation left on surfaces. It is used for monitoring leaf moisture...
    3 KB (357 words) - 23:39, 6 December 2021
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