Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1901 — Our First Wire Suspension Bridge. [ARTICLE]

Our First Wire Suspension Bridge.

■ In the History of Philadelphia (1884) Thompson Westcott says that the first Wire suspension bridge in the United States, if not in the world, was thrown across the Schuylkill river, near the Falls of Schuylkill, in Philadelphia, in 1816. Its use was necessarily restricted to foot passengers, and only eight passengers were allowed to be on the bridge at once.