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On May 27, 1937, over 200,000 people gathered to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge, marking its official opening. The bridge, the longest single-span suspension bridge when built (it has since been surpassed), links San Francisco to Marin County. Considered an engineering marvel and an icon of modernist architecture, it was built in less than five years, at a cost of
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"The Golden Gate Bridge is the most famous bridge in the world. It is also, not entirely coincidentally, the world's only bright-orange bridge. But it wasn't supposed to be that way. In this book, fellow bridge-lovers Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols tell the story of how it happened - how a bridge that some people wanted to be red and white, and some people wanted to be yellow and black, and most people wanted simply to be gray, instead became, thanks...
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Explains the history behind and the process of building the Golden Gate Bridge. The book explores why the bridge was built and describes the design stages and technologies used during construction. The book also describes the challenges builders faced while building the bridge.