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31 Aug

The requirement for steamboats to adjust their smokestacks as needed when passing the Wheeling Suspension Bridge became law

The Wheeling suspension bridge case, formally known as State of Pennsylvania v. Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Co., was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in February 1852. The Wheeling suspension bridge had opened to great fanfare in 1849. It carried...

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