An iron truss bridge, constructed of prefabricated sections, was completed overnight between Saturday and Sunday on the main line of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company near West Manayunk, Pennsylvania. A little over ten yards long, it was the first of its kind in the country. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 133.
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