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How to Construct a Weight-Bearing Bridge
 
This page is being used to collect information about the history of the pleated weight-bearing paper bridge. Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

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1939

As far as I know this design first appears in 'Fun with Paper' by Joseph Leeming, which was published by Spencer Press Inc in Chicago in 1939.

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1963

This effect also appears in 'Fell's Guide to Papercraft: Tricks, Games and Puzzles' by Walter B Gibson, which was published by Frederick Fell Inc in New York and George McLeod Ltd in Toronto in 1963.

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