4299 x 2866 px | 36,4 x 24,3 cm | 14,3 x 9,6 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
August 2013
Ort:
Waterfront Horseshoe Bay, Fort Baker, to Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA
Weitere Informationen:
The Golden Gate Bridge, with Art Deco elements in its design, was the longest suspension bridge in the world until 1964. The deck trusses strengthen the roadway, further strengthened by the supender ropes, attached to the cable that transmit the load to the steel towers, which direct it to the foundations and ground below. Below the bridge, is the Lime Point Fog Station. Lime Point is a long, narrow rock spur extending into the waters of San Francisco Bay, just east of the Golden Gate Bridge North Tower. In 1833 a 1-storey fog signal building and 2-storey keeper's house were built on the spur. In 1900 the fog horn was supplemented by a lens lantern hung on the wall of the fog signal building, 19 feet above the water level. Lime Point was automated in 1961 and all the buildings except the original fog station razed. By the 1890s the US War Department was concerned about the condition of the country's coastal defences and made recommendations to modernise and re-arm all existing sea-ports. The 'Endicott Board', named after Secretary of War, William C. Endicott, ranked San Francisco as the most important harbour on the Pacific Coast and second only to New York in the country. Fort Baker was built between 1902 and 1910 to house the soldiers at eight newly constructed gun batteries in Marin County on the north side of the Golden Gate. Horsheshoe Bay was turned into the fort's harbour with breakwater protection (seen here).
