Ithiel Town
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Ithiel Town was an American architect and civil engineer. One of the first generation of professional architects in the United States, Town made significant contributions to American architecture in t
Bust of Town by Chauncey Ives, 1825
Samuel Russell House, Middletown, Connecticut (with David Hoadley)
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (with A. J. Davis)
Town's lattice truss patent drawing
Lattice truss bridge
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A lattice truss bridge is a form of truss bridge that uses many small, closely spaced diagonal elements forming a lattice. The design was patented in 1820 by architect Ithiel Town.
Ithiel Town
…Academy of Design and was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from Yale University. On January 28, 1820, Town was granted a patent for a wooden lattice truss bridge, which became known as the Town Bridge. The design was of great importance because it could be built quickly by relatively unskilled workers from readily…
Interior structure of a covered bridge utilizing a plank-lattice structure
Belfast trusses as roof supports in an aircraft hangar from the First World War at the Duxford Imperial War Museum
Root Road Covered Bridge, Ashtabula County, Ohio
Railroad bridge across the Iowa River in Iowa City, Iowa