REPORT
ON THE
CINCINNATI BRIDGE.
The object of the following report, is to explain the principal features of theaccompanying plan of a Wire Cable Suspension Bridge, proposed to be erectedover the Ohio river between Cincinnati and Covington, and to present such datato the consideration of the public, as to enable it fully to discuss the merits ofthe enterprise, and to decide, whether it is deserving of a general support,or not.
Whatever we undertake in opposition to public opinion, if that opinion is theresult of a careful investigation, must turn out a fatal enterprise, and cannotsucceed in the end. In this report, therefore, we will endeavor to be guided bytruth and facts alone. We invite those who interest themselves, either for oragainst, to meet us in the same spirit, in those discussions, which no doubt willbe carried on, before the public mind can rest satisfied.
In order to facilitate the examination of the subject before us, I propose toconsider it under several distinct heads, arranged as follows :
1. General Remarks.
2. Location of Bridge.
3. General Description.
4. Anchorage.
5. Cables.
6. Suspenders.
7. Stays.
8. Floor.
9. Grading.
10. Practicability of proposed Work.
a. Adequate strength of Cables and Stays.
c. Solidity of Foundation.
d. Stability of center Tower.
e. Effects of Ice.
11. CoMPARITIVE MERITS OF ONE OR TWO SPANS.
12. Investment.
13. Construction.
14. Estimates.
15. Table of Quantities.
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