The Athens Post

Mr. H. N. Houghton, of Bergen, N. J. has invented a new plan for bridging rivers without interfering with the navigation. It is to erect bridges upon piers at the necessary elevation, with a track thereon with rails and wheels, from which upon a strong framework, should depend a platform, at the level of the connecting roads, and of course above high water and of freshet, which shall receive the trains to be conveyed across by the application of a very simple power-crank and pulley— moving the wheel above.