- A king post (or king-post or
kingpost) is a
central vertical post used in
architectural or
bridge designs,
working in
tension to
support a beam
below from...
- A
truss bridge is a
bridge whose load-bearing
superstructure is
composed of a truss, a
structure of
connected elements,
usually forming triangular units...
- simply, Burr
Truss or Burr Arch—is a
combination of an arch and a
multiple kingpost truss design. It was
invented in 1804 by
Theodore Burr,
patented on April...
-
National Register of
Historic Places. The bridge's main span is a
wooden kingpost pony truss. The
bridge is
supported by
Phoenix columns, a type of wrought...
-
running on rails,
surmounted by a
slewing horizontal jib, held up by a
kingpost. Block-setting
cranes were
large cranes developed in the mid-Victorian...
- County, Pennsylvania. It was
built in 1845, and is a 104-foot-long (32 m)
Kingpost truss bridge, with half-height
plank siding and an
asbestos shingled gable...
- empennage. The
monoplane version featured wings that were wire-braced to a
kingpost on the
forward fuselage, and was
powered by a 71 kW (90 hp) NAG engine...
-
chose to
build this
short bridge using a
simpler design with
multiple kingpost trusses and,
instead of Burr arches, pyramidal-shaped
trusses to add additional...
- type numbers, had four
rather than five
holds served by
large hatches and
kingpost with
large capacity booms.
Those four hold
ships were
designated for transport...
- Its 163 sq ft (15.1 m2) area wing is
supported by a
single tube-type
kingpost and uses an "A"
frame control bar. The
standard engine supplied was the...
