The longest bread twist measured 20.7 m (67 ft 10 in) and was made by the Kroppedal Museum with the assistance of the Albertslund and Høje Taastrup scouts (all Denmark) in Taastrup, Denmark, on 16 October 2010. The record attempt was part of the museum’s food festival. The bread weighed 17.62 kg (38 lb 13 oz).
The six-lane, T-shaped Qingdao-Haiwan road bridge, which spans Jiaozhou Bay in China’s Shangdong Province, is 42.5 km (26.4 miles) long. The earthquake- and typhoon-proof bridge opened in 2011 and is designed to withstand the impact of a 300,000-tonne vessel. Image via Alamy.
The longest bridge held by swimmers was 250 m (820 ft 2 in) long and was held by 800 volunteers of the German Wasserwacht at the Brombachsee, Germany, on 21 June 2008 The bridge was crossed by Christoph Haller.
The longest bridge fountain is located on the Banpo Grand Bridge over the Han River in Seoul (South Korea) which measures 1,140 metres (3,740 ft 1 in). It was constructed by Seoul Metropolitan Infrastructure Headquarters. Running along the length of the bridge are 380 nozzles that send 54 tonnes (60 tons) of water cascading 43 m (140 ft) horizontally and 20 m (65 ft) down into the river every minute. In the evening, LED lights illuminate the water spray, which “dances” in time to 100
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In April 2007, Ermanno Pietrosemoli (Venezuela) shot an 802.11 wireless signal 382 km (237 miles) between two mountains in the Venezuelan Andes. Pietrosemoli, the president of Latin American networking association Escuela Latinoamerica de Redes, achieved a throughput of 3 Mbps of data.
The Kokonoe Yume bridge was opened on 30 October 2006 by the Kokonoe town government. The bridge is the longest suspension bridge for pedestrians in the world, spanning a length of 390 m (1279 ft). There is a separate record for longest wooden footbridge set by the Horai Bridge located in the Shizuoka prefecture in Japan.
The Chongqing-Chaotianmen Bridge over the Yangtze River in China is a two-deck, steel truss-arch bridge with a main span of 552 m (1,811 ft). The bridge was opened on 29 April 2009.
The main span of the Akashi-Kaikyo road bridge linking Honshu and Shikoku, Japan, is 1,990.8 m (6,532 ft) or (1.24 miles) long. The overall suspended length with side spans totals 3,911.1 m (12,831 ft 8 in or 2.43 miles). Two towers rise 297 m (974 ft 5 in) above water level and the two main supporting cables are 1,122 mm (44 in) in diameter, making both tower height and cable diameter world records. Construction began in 1988 and the bridge was opened to traffic on
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Although not the longest bridge in the world, the bridge spanning the greatest width of open ocean is the 36-km (22.4-mile) long Hangzhou Bay Bridge linking the cities of Cixi and Zhapu in the Zhejiang province of China. Construction on the £860 million (then $1.4 billion) bridge began in June 2003 and it is expected to be open to road traffic in 2008.
The Tsing Ma Bridge in Hong Kong, China, which opened to the public in May 1997, has a main span of 1,377 m 4,518 ft, making it the longest suspension-bridge span for combined road/railway traffic.