How the Golden Gate Bridge actually works

The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most photographed pieces of infrastructure ever built. An engineering marvel, this excellent video details its construction and how it works.

Animagraffs breaks the bridge down into understandable pieces without dumbing it down. The video walks through how a suspension bridge actually works, why the towers are shaped the way they are, how the cables distribute load, and why the whole thing is designed to move rather than resist it. — Read the rest...