By the summer of 1850, various versions of a short skirt and trousers, or Turkish dress, were being worn by readers of the Water-Cure Journal as well as women patients at the nationâs health resorts. After wearing the style in private, some began wearing it in public.
Lesson Plans. 1. The Brooklyn Bridge, constructed between 1869-1883, is a symbol of late 19th-century innovation and progress. It was the first suspension bridge to use steel for its cable wire and the first to use pneumatic caissons.
The New South Wales Government then invited worldwide tenders for the construction of the Bridge in 1922 and the contract was let to English firm Dorman Long and Co of Middlesbrough. The Sydney Harbour Bridge construction started in 1924 and took 1,400 men eight years to build at a cost of 4.2 million.Six million hand driven rivets and 53,000 tonnes of steel were used in its construction.he Tyne Bridge in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England is a much smaller version of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, its length measuring 397 metres and the main span 161 metres.