The Century-Old Mechanics of Connecticut’s Mystic River Bascule Bridge #mysticct #bridge #engineering #history Connecticut’s Mystic River Bascule Bridge has anchored the river crossing since 1922. Built to lift rather than rotate, its bascule design—named for the French word meaning seesaw—uses twin 230-ton concrete masses to counterbalance more than six hundred tons of steel. It still opens roughly two thousand times a year, a century-old machine in everyday use. | Call Cress