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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Inspects railroad bridges, trestles, culverts, and waterways to detect damage or wear and to ensure structures conform to safety regulations, building codes, and railroad engineering specifications: Inspects waterways to determine need for cleaning, straightening, or enlargement. Inspects masonry in tunnels, culverts, and waterways to detect cracks in concrete or signs of settlement. Verifies alignment of bridge with road track, using levels and similar gauging instruments. Observes installation of guardrails on bridges to ensure construction according to specifications. Inspects fire protection equipment, such as fire alarms, sprinkler systems, and water barrels, on bridges and in tunnels. Determines need for repainting structures to prevent rust or excessive weathering. Measures clearance between bridges and roads to ensure sufficient clearance for passage of vehicles, in accordance with local building codes and specifications. Inspects piles, posts, and timbers to determine if decayed, split, or crooked. Strikes wooden supports with hammer and listens for sounds indicating decay. Inspects bolts and rivets at joints of floor beams, stringers, and panel points to ensure they are securely fastened. Inspects steel girders to detect buckling. Inspects drainage systems to detect obstructions. Inspects inside of tunnels to detect excessive vegetation growth. Prepares reports of findings, noting location and type of structure, defect, and extent of damage. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In June 1993, a Louisiana bridge inspector who had not traveled to the Four Corners area developed HPS. An investigation was begun. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bridge inspector training | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-g-i-i-n-o-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: redescription. | |
-3 letters: predigestion, redepositing, redescribing, redirections. | |
-4 letters: copresident, cordierites, description, directories, predictions, prescribing, probenecids, proceedings, proscribing, redigestion, redirecting, redirection, retroceding, stringpiece. | |
-5 letters: bestirring, bestriding, biogenetic, broideries, broidering, cointerred, cordierite, coresident, criterions, deceptions, deorbiting, depictions, depositing, describing, descriptor, directions, discepting, discretion, disporting, dogberries, escritoire, estrogenic, grinderies, indiscreet, intercrops, interposed, interposer, iridescent, isentropic, necropsied, perditions, pigeonites. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 52 49 44 47 45 49 4E 53 50 45 43 54 4F 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010010 01001001 01000100 01000111 01000101 00100000 01001001 01001110 01010011 01010000 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001111 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B R I D G E   I N S P E C T O R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0052 0049 0044 0047 0045 0049 004E 0053 0050 0045 0043 0054 004F 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3652433841392434853503937544952 |
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