What Happens To A Bridge When One Side Uses Mediterranean Sea Level And Another The North Sea?
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - 15:10
in Earth & Climate
Where is 'sea level' and how far above sea level is a particular place located? Quite a lot of things may go wrong in bridge building and the inhabitants of the German and the Swiss parts of Laufenburg were looking forward to a new bridge over the Rhine, the High Rhine Bridge, when they were taken aback by an embarrassing error: The heights of the two bridge parts growing towards each other differed by 54 centimeters. read more