How the Charles Bridge in Prague (Czech Republic) was built
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bronobo (Long Spike)
sooooo much work, doing all of it by hand. i imagine it took so much time and effort. but labor was probably cheap. and the caissons made of wood and dirt.
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UltimateX (Short Spike)
Holy shit, I just looked up how long it took to complete. I was gonna say a couple years. Nope. 45 years to complete.
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beer420 (Old Spike)
are those metric years?
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UltimateX (Short Spike)
I'm not sure about that. Wikipedia is saying this: Construction start 1357. Construction End 1402. That's 45 years. I wasn't even aware there was metric time. I had to look it up.
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sato (Old Spike)
my guess is they weren't working on it the entire time, probably in seasons, between harvest and such.
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hell_viper1 (Short Spike)
Are you serious? My sarcasm detector didnt go off
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backdraft (Dixie Normous: Image specialist)
Thats approximately 23652 kiloseconds
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sato (Old Spike)
interesting, pretty much just as it'd be built today, only with smaller parts, and water power instead of gasoline.
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Biz (Old Spike)
Not quite tho, there are bridges today with spans almost 4 times the length of the entire bridge, it would have been made of steel and reinforced concrete, probably spanning most of the river with either no supports or at the most two. Repairing the new bridge would take far fewer guys and no one would be butthurt if they were not trained archeologists.
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Cahu (Old Spike)
Did you just assume that that was a bridge? So racist
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hell_viper1 (Short Spike)
Holy shit that is patience. Really cool how it was done though...
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(Long Spike)
sooooo much work, doing all of it by hand. i imagine it took so much time and effort. but labor was probably cheap. and the caissons made of wood and dirt.
(Short Spike)
Holy shit, I just looked up how long it took to complete. I was gonna say a couple years. Nope. 45 years to complete.
(Old Spike)
are those metric years?
(Short Spike)
I'm not sure about that. Wikipedia is saying this: Construction start 1357. Construction End 1402. That's 45 years. I wasn't even aware there was metric time. I had to look it up.
(Old Spike)
my guess is they weren't working on it the entire time, probably in seasons, between harvest and such.
(Short Spike)
Are you serious? My sarcasm detector didnt go off
(Dixie Normous: Image specialist)
Thats approximately 23652 kiloseconds
(Old Spike)
interesting, pretty much just as it'd be built today, only with smaller parts, and water power instead of gasoline.
(Old Spike)
Not quite tho, there are bridges today with spans almost 4 times the length of the entire bridge, it would have been made of steel and reinforced concrete, probably spanning most of the river with either no supports or at the most two. Repairing the new bridge would take far fewer guys and no one would be butthurt if they were not trained archeologists.
(Old Spike)
Did you just assume that that was a bridge? So racist
(Short Spike)
Holy shit that is patience. Really cool how it was done though...