🌉 Golden Gate Bridge for kids

Look out the window! See that giant orange bridge? That's the Golden Gate Bridge! People said nobody could ever build a bridge here. The wind was wild, the fog was thick, and the ocean rushed in and out, super fast. So how did they do it?

Step one: the towers. One tower stands right in the ocean! Workers built a giant concrete wall in the water, like a huge bathtub, pumped the water out, and filled the bottom with concrete. Then they stacked steel up and up, until each tower was taller than forty giraffes standing on each other's heads! Step two: the cables. A wheel zoomed back and forth over the towers, again and again, pulling skinny wires.

Thousands of wires got squeezed into two giant cables, fatter than a tree trunk. There's enough wire in there to wrap around the whole Earth three times! Step three: the road. Workers hung it from the cables with long steel ropes, piece by piece, out from each tower to the middle. And under the bridge they hung a giant net, like a circus net. It caught nineteen workers who slipped, and they started their very own club, just for workers the net caught!