Town, Ithiel (Bridge Builders)

Town, Ithiel Sites:

The Yadkin's First Bridges The Yadkin's First Bridges: Biography with details of his design of a bridge across the Cape Fear River. Includes an album of Town lattice truss covered bridges (Town, Ithiel) http://www.tradingford.com/townbrid.html The Town Bridge The Town Bridge: Short article from the Eli Whitney museum. Includes Town's patent drawing of the lattice truss, 1820, and a present view of the bridge. (Town, Ithiel) http://www.eliwhitney.org/mm1.htm#three Town's Lattice Truss Town's Lattice Truss: Diagram of the patented lattice truss and detail photograph of Town's treenail joints. (Town, Ithiel) http://www.past-inc.org/historic-bridges/image-towntruss.html