1/6 · Exterior · Tower Bridge from the Pool of London on the River Thames in London EnglandPhoto: Acabashi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source2/6 · Exterior · Tower Bridge, LondonPhoto: Matthias Bethke · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source3/6 · Exterior · Tower Bridge, London, EnglandPhoto: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source4/6 · Exterior · Tower Bridge, London, EnglandPhoto: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source5/6 · InteriorPhoto: sebastiandoe5 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source6/6 · Detail · Tower Bridge bascules from the Pool of London on the River Thames in London EnglandPhoto: Acabashi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Infrastructure · Historic precedent
Tower Bridge
Horace Jones; John Wolfe Barry · London, GB · 1894
Key featuresCombines bascule, suspension and (until 1960) cantilever types, with central bascules that open for ships.