Mathematical Bridge

The Mathematical Bridge is also well known by the name of a wooden footbridge in the southwest of focal Cambridge, United Kingdom.

It connects the River Cam around one hundred feet northwest of Silver Street Bridge and interfaces two sections of Queens' College. Its official name is basically the Wooden Bridge. It is a Grade II recorded building.

The scaffold was composed by William Etheridge, and worked by James Essex in 1749. It has been modified on two events, in 1866 and in 1905, however has kept a similar general plan.

In spite of the fact that it has all the earmarks of being a curve, it is made completely out of straight timbers worked to an abnormally refined building plan, consequently the name.

The plan of timbers is a progression of digressions that portray the circular segment of the scaffold, with outspread individuals to entwine the digressions and triangulate the structure, making it inflexible and self-supporting.

This kind of structure, in fact digression and spiral trussing, is an effective basic utilization of timber, and was additionally utilized for the timber supporting curves utilized for building stone scaffolds.