No. Tower Bridge wasn't completed until 1894.
Tower Bridge is used by thousands of vehicles and pedestrians every day.
Tower Bridge is used by thousands of vehicles and pedestrians every day.
The present London Bridge is a pre-stressed concrete box girder bridge.
Steel
Stone and steel.
It is used by thousands of vehicles and pedestrians every day.
Crossing the River Thames in London. It also houses a museum relating to the bridge.
It is used by thousands of vehicles and pedestrians every day.
11,000
11,000 tons of steel.
Actually, a suspension bridge mostly has 2 or more towers. The towers on a bridge are used for support without them a bridge would collapse! :-)
There was virtually no wire used in the construction of Tower Bridge. Its main components are 70,000 tons of concrete, 11,000 tons of steel and it is clad in Cornish granite and Portland stone.