Golden Gate Bridge HTML5

The Golden Gate Bridge was built in 4 years.

• Where: San Francisco (United States)
• Opening ceremony: May 27, 1937
• Central span: 1280 m
• Total length: 2737 m
• Height of towers: 227 m (of which 67 m under the span)
• Weight of the steel: 894,500 tons (2.5 Empire State Building)
• Number of rivets: 1,200,000
• Number of steel wires: 27572 in each cable
• Length of a cable: 2332 m
• Diameter of a cable: 92.4 cm
• Length of work: 4 years
• Cost: 27 M$ (US Dollars)
• Human toll: 11 deaths (a record at the time) - 19 lives saved thanks to the Safety Net

The Golden Gate is a suspended bridge (See eduMedia animation on different types of bridges).

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