Zhang drafted his own engineers and started researching how to build cheap, environmentally friendly structures that could also withstand an earthquake.
The bridge, built last November for about $600, 000, is being monitored with deflection sensors and other instruments, and so far is holding up under the daily onslaught of traffic.
The various parts of The Falkirk Wheel were all constructed and assembled, like one giant toy building set, at Butterley Engineering's Steelworks in Derbyshire, some 400 km from Falkirk.
In the following centuries, increasingly sophisticated waterpower mills were built throughout the Roman Empire and beyond its boundaries in the Middle East and northern Europe.
They began to build their houses with separate rooms to entertain guests—living rooms, separate bedrooms for sleeping, separate work areas—kitchen, laundry room, and separate bathrooms.
Trading was important, as so many raw materials, the semiprecious stones for the decoration of the temples, timbers for roofs, and all metals, had to be imported.
The Statue of Liberty was originally constructed in France before being deconstructed and shipped to America in 350 individual pieces packed in 214 crates.
"Shanghai's foundations are built on soft soil, so building multistoried spaces underground would be like digging holes in a piece of bean curd," the government report said.