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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1947
Page
3
In 1848 plans for a bridge over Niagara Falls faced a cable challenge. A boy won five dollars by piloting a kite with a string across the 800 foot gap, enabling a small steel cable to be pulled over. This led to the first steel suspension bridge below the American falls with an 820 foot span.
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