Today in Technology History
March 15 (continued)

These are excerpts from Whipple's 1841 patent for the "iron truss" bridge design. The type of bridge sketched below would be a familiar sight over the many canals built in the 1840s and thereafter, although Whipple did not always earn the royalties he deserved.

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