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How was the Sydney Harbour Bridge built?

How was the Sydney Harbour Bridge built?

History for Kids / History's Not Boring: The Kids History Podcast vor 2 Monaten

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Imagine a city divided by a massive, deep harbour where the only
way across is waiting in a huge line for a slow ferry boat! That
was Sydney, Australia in the early 1900s. But then, an engineer had
a giant dream to build a massive steel rainbow across the water!
Join Mira and Finn as they travel back in time to discover how the
world-famous Sydney Harbour Bridge was built! Learn about the
workers who hung hundreds of feet in the sky with no safety
harnesses, throwing red-hot metal rivets through the air like a
crazy circus act. We'll hear the unbelievable true story of a man
who fell from a 40-story height into the water and survived! Plus,
find out why locals nicknamed this massive 52,800-tonne structure
"The Coathanger" and hear about the wild opening day when a
mysterious man on horseback crashed the party with a giant sword!
Get ready for flying metal, ocean-sized buckets of paint, and one
of the coolest engineering marvels in history!