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Bridge Varieties
Important advances in iron refining allowed a "Cambrian explosion" of different bridge designs to occur throughout the 1800s. This Demonstration shows some of them.
Contributed by:
Todd Rowland
and
Ed Pegg Jr
Based on an idea by:
Stephen Wolfram
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Bridge Varieties
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http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/BridgeVarieties/
Contributed by:
Todd Rowland
and
Ed Pegg Jr
Based on an idea by:
Stephen Wolfram
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