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On either side of a gorge high in the Peruvian Andes, an aging rope bridge sags precariously over the Apurímac River. 1 of 13 A Quechua man walks across the old suspension bridge at the start of ...
To perform the task of bridge-building, the drones are fitted with a motorised spool of rope. This allows the drone to control the rope's tension as they unspool it, guided by a plastic tube to a ...
The JROTC rope bridge competition makes use of a rope that is set up as to act as a bridge over a water barrier for team members to cross. And Hendersonville's 10-member squad was the fastest in ...
The bridge on the National Mall will be made of hundreds of ropes of varying thicknesses. The math involved is formidable. “It’s like calculus,” Valencia says.