// dont hate me for my bad typing.. And my pc sucks so im just seeing how big this is <_<
My project is not on a specific bridge or a building, but on a man who has helped us
build the bridges and supports that we know of today. The mans name is Pratt Truss, he had
always been fascinated with structure and support. In 1844 he put a patent on his work under
the name of Thomas and Caleb Pratt. The structure and buiding ways it self were very needed
for the time it was made in.
Pratt spent many years working and updating his design, and one of the biggest changes
he had to go through, was when he had to change his ways of wood, into iron. It was a good
chance that the structure would make it into the Iron Age, which it did. But later, another
challenge rose, steel. It was also a good thing that the support made it through the switch
to steel, for it was used much in trains and bridge design.
The way the