# AMERICA'S GREAT BRIDGE TEST

AMERICA'S GREAT BRIDGE TEST Produced: 1929 Description On 1927 tests of Swift Island Bridge over the Peedee River, North Carolina. Shows the bridge and construction work on a nearby dam. Various tests are made by the Bureau of Public Roads to test the strength of a modern concrete bridge. Shows the bridge being bombed, hit by artillery shells, and completely destroyed by mines as part of the War Department experiments. A new bridge is constructed on the site. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7297

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1929
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/33-339)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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