"A panorama of some of the most famous bridges ever constructed, as well as lesser-known wonders."--Jacket.;Bridge basics -- Pont du Gard, Nimes, France, 18 B.C. -- Ponte Sant'Angelo, Rome, A.D. 134 -- Anji Bridge, Zhaoxian, China, late 6th century -- Pont d'Avignon, Avignon, France, 1187 -- Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy, 1345 -- Mostar Bridge, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1566 -- Rialto Bridge, Venice, 1591 -- Garden bridges -- Pont Neuf, Paris, 1609 -- Palladian Bridge, Buckinghamshire, England, c. 1744 -- Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale, England, 1779 -- Menai Suspension Bridge, Menai Strait, Wales, 1826 -- London Bridge, London, 1831; Lake Havasu City, Arizona, 1971 -- Starrucca Viaduct, Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, 1848 -- Delaware Aqueduct, Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania-Minisink Ford, New York, 1849 -- Catastrophe -- Britannia Railway Bridge, Menai Strait, Wales, 1850;Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge, Cornish, New Hampshire-Windsor, Vermont, 1866 -- Whipple Bowstring Truss Bridge, Albany, New York, 1869 -- Eads Bridge, St. Louis, Missouri, 1874 -- Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn-Manhattan, New York, 1883 -- Garabit Viaduct, Saint-Flour, France, 1884 -- Forth Bridge, Queensferry, Scotland, 1890 -- Covered bridges -- Tower Bridge, London, 1894 -- Hell Gate Bridge, Queens-Bronx, New York, 1916 -- Bloedel Donovan's Bridge, King County, Washington, 1920 -- Michigan Avenue Bridge, Chicago, 1920 -- Salginatobel Bridge, Schiers, Switzerland, 1930 -- George Washington Bridge, New York-New Jersey, 1931 -- Sydney Harbor Bridge, Sydney, Australia, 1932 -- The bridges of war -- San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge, California, 1936 -- Siuslaw River Bridge, Florence, Oregon, 1936 -- Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, 1937 -- Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Tacome, Washington, 1940;Ludendorff Bridge, Remagen, Germany, 1918 -- Mackinac Bridge, Straits of Mackinac, Michigan, 1957 -- Lake Maracaibo Bridge, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1962 -- Bridges in the movies -- Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Tampa Bay, Florida, 1987 -- Hitsuishijima and Iwakurojima bridges, Kojima-Sakaide, Japan, 1988 -- Lusitania Bridge, Merida, Spain, 1991 -- Natchez Trace Parkway Arches, Franklin, Tennessee, 1994 -- River Relocation, Providence, Rhode Island, 1996 -- Erasmus Bridge, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1996 -- No bridge too far -- Confederation Bridge, Northumberland Strait, Canada, 1997 -- Tsing Ma Bridge, Hong Kong, 1997 -- East Bridge, Great Belt Fixed Link, FunenZealand, Denmark, 1998 -- Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, Kobe-Naruto, Japan, 1998 -- Tatara Bridge, Onomichi-Imabari, Japan, 1999 -- 100 longest bridges in the world.