I also remember this bridge: so many locks on it from lovers, if I remember rightly! No, that’s in Paris!!
So why is this called the “Chain Bridge”?
Aha! It is the forerunner of steel cable suspension bridges.
“The main suspension cables in older bridges were often made from chain or linked bars, but modern bridge cables are made from multiple strands of wire. This not only adds strength but improves reliability (often called redundancy in engineering terms) because the failure of a few flawed strands in the hundreds used pose very little threat of failure, whereas a single bad link or eyebar can cause failure of an entire bridge. (The failure of a single eyebar was found to be the cause of the collapse of the Silver Bridge over the Ohio River.) Another reason is that as spans increased, engineers were unable to lift larger chains into position, whereas wire strand cables can be formulated one by one in mid-air from a temporary walkway. Wikipedia.”
I wonder whether or not this Hungarian Bridge still has those original chain links? Not to smart!
Asher