Image: Chaksam (Iron Bridge in transliteration from Tibetan to English)
Description: A diagram of one of the earliest known suspension bridges in the world, built in 1430, at Chushul, south of Lhasa in Tibet. The image was taken by an Indian spy working for the Survey of India in 1878, and published by Waddell in 1905.
Title: Chaksam (Iron Bridge in transliteration from Tibetan to English)
Credit: https://archive.org/details/lhasaanditsmyst00waddgoog pg 313
Author: Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Diagram extracted from the Internet Archive's copy by wikipedia user eselquinoa.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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