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The planned suspension bridge linking Sicily to the mainland would have a record-breaking 3,300-m record span.

This 1935 cover image shows a tower under construction for New York City’s Triborough Bridge (now known as the RFK Bridge), a suspension bridge with a main span of 1,380 ft, connecting Queens County with Wards Island.

Supported by cables anchored into valley sides, the last two sections of the 1,000-ft-long deck are due to be placed this week and next.

Global team worked on Dardanelles crossing called the 1915Çanakkale Bridge.

Freshly armed in 1963 with a master’s degree in civil engineering from Istanbul Technical University, a young Ersin Arıoğlu and a partner had a daunting task: reinforce, upgrade and make an iconic contribution to Istanbul’s silhouette out of the Galata Tower, a building dating back to the Ottoman Empire.

It was a long-standing dream—not only of Ersin Arıoğlu, but of a nation. Could a suspension bridge someday cross the Dardanelles Strait in Turkey and provide another link between Europe and Asia?