Building bridges from pennies

Saw a reference to this on another site:

http://www.fincher.org/Misc/Pennies/

Interesting for a few minutes. Next time you’re searching through rolls of cents you might want to try your hand at bridge construction before you reroll the cents.

 

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wow thats awesome with the spiral and the dome

 

Fun site, thanks for sharing Bacchus. I can imagine someone doing one of these structures where they use to toning of the pennies as a design element. Anything from a simple color fade, darker at the base to nice and shiny new on the top, to all dark with periodic new coins to make a pattern.

 

Great pics

now, anyone build something like that with Ikes???

 

I was thinking along those lines. Maybe with proof ASEs ?

 

That is great!!

Speedy

 

Did anybody click the link to see the structures submitted by other people ? They are amazing:

http://fincher.org/Misc/Pennies/Sent.shtml

I especially like the pictures of the Norwegian Krones in set #6.

 

I've wasted my whole life!

This is fantastic. I used and occasional still make tall towers with them, just pick something like pennies and see how far you can stack them before it falls, then try and beat that record.

 

Bacchus...Very cool find....now I am going to have to try that..cool site and great stacks!!

RickieB

 

ok, I need more coins........

the only ones I have plenty of to build something like this, are too small. Dutch 1 cent coins (that's smaller than a US dime) and dutch 10 cent coins (those are even smaller, only 15 mm diameter)

 

I suppose it would be cheating to use Legos ...

 

Not if they are those smooth top, or smoothed bottomed ones you can get!

Then again you could just sand off the bobbles.

 

Nice work with the coins, ...... and I thought I had too much time on my hands........

 

I'm not believing that until i see it !

 

I tried that one day. Not as complex as some of those, but it is amazing what you can build with a pile of cents. A good way to waste some time and frazzle some nerves.

 

Thanks....and I saw them all....three were super amazing...

Clinker

 

That is incredible. Think of all the time that would be needed to do that!

 

Page 16... the 55000 coin petronas towers! wow!

 

No kidding! That is awesome.

 

Iam pretty skeptical about that i mean i think some type of bonding material is holding it together but i could be wrong. Iam gonna ask my proffessor to see if its logically possible. i could be wrong but i have to see to beleive that one