When building the Golden Gate Bridge: > Most speculated that a bridge would cost over $100 million. > Joseph Strauss, who had designed nearly 400 bridges, cla

When building the Golden Gate Bridge: > Most speculated that a bridge would cost over $100 million. > Joseph Strauss, who had designed nearly 400 bridges, claimed it could be built for $25 to $30 million. > "Strauss was a strange, at times almost a self cancelling mixture of conflicting traits: promoter, mystic, tinkerer, dreamer, tenacious hustler, publicity seeker, and recluse. He was not a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers nor was he a graduate of a college of engineering." http://www.structuremag.org/article.aspx?articleID=1493 http://www.structuremag.org/article.aspx?articleID=1493