Tower Bridge in London

"Tower Bridge in London"

A color changing sunset at the Tower Bridge in London. This iconic bridge was built between 1886 and 1894, the Bridge has spent more than a century as London's defining landmark, an icon of London and the United Kingdom.

After construction of this bridge was completed, the Tower Bridge was the largest and most sophisticated bascule bridge ever completed ('bascule' comes from the French word for 'seesaw'). Note that today most people use the word 'drawbridge' instead. These drawbrides (i.e. bascules) were operated by hydraulics, using steam to power the enormous pumping engines. The energy created was stored in six massive accumulators, meaning that as soon as power was required to lift the Bridge, it was always readily available. The accumulators fed the driving engines, which drove the bascules up and down. Despite the complexity of the system, the bascules only took about a minute to raise to their maximum angle of 86 degrees

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Color Changing Fine Art Print
Photographer: Skeeze
Composition by: EFX Gallery
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Sources: "Tower Bridge 1894", https://www.towerbridge.org.uk/discover/history