Although suggested as early as the late 1800s, the Golden Gate Bridge was not seriously considered until the 1920s. In 1921, Joseph Strauss was the lead architect for the bridge, with contributions ...

The $224 million project to install suicide prevention netting at the Golden Gate Bridge is already paying off. The New York Times reports that after decades of averaging about 30 deaths a year—and ...

The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most majestic structures on Earth. Even more impressive, perhaps, is that the bridge was built swiftly and opened in 1937, on time and under budget. This makes it ...

(CNN) – Monday marks the anniversary of an engineering feat: the beginning of construction on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Workers first began clearing more than 3 million cubic feet of ...

NMAH copy 39088019917343 Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Moving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements of celebrity engineers and designers, Building the Golden Gate ...