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===Underspanned=== In an underspanned suspension bridge, also called under-deck cable-stayed bridge,<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/L08-033 | doi=10.1139/L08-033 | title=Structural behaviour and design criteria of under-deck cable-stayed bridges and combined cable-stayed bridges. Part 1: Single-span bridges | year=2008 | last1=Ruiz-Teran | first1=A. M. | last2=Aparicio | first2=A. C. | journal=Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering | volume=35 | issue=9 | pages=938β950 | hdl=10044/1/14353 | s2cid=248412344 | hdl-access=free }}</ref> the main cables hang entirely below the bridge deck, but are still anchored into the ground in a similar way to the conventional type. Very few bridges of this nature have been built, as the deck is inherently less stable than when suspended below the cables. Examples include the Pont des Bergues of 1834 designed by [[Guillaume Henri Dufour]];<ref name="Peters"/> James Smith's Micklewood Bridge;<ref name="Drewry">{{cite book |title=A Memoir of Suspension Bridges: Comprising The History of Their Origin And Progress |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hw8LAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 |last=Drewry |first=Charles Stewart |year=1832 |publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman |location=London |access-date=13 June 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616213647/http://books.google.com/books?id=Hw8LAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 |archive-date=16 June 2013 }}</ref> and a proposal by [[Robert Stevenson (civil engineer)|Robert Stevenson]] for a bridge over the River Almond near [[Edinburgh]].<ref name="Drewry"/> [[Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct]] (begun 1847) consists of three sections supported by cables. The timber structure essentially hides the cables; and from a quick view, it is not immediately apparent that it is even a suspension bridge. <gallery widths="200" heights="170"> File:Micklewood-bridge.png|Micklewood Bridge as illustrated by Charles Drewry, 1832 File:Squibb Park Bridge uncut jeh.jpg|[[Squibb Park Bridge]], [[Brooklyn]], built 2013 File:Chains on Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol.jpg|[[Eyebar]] chain cables of [[Clifton Suspension Bridge]] File:Yichang Yangtze Highway Bridge.JPG|The [[Yichang Bridge]], a plate deck suspension bridge, over the [[Yangtze River]] in China </gallery>
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