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Detail of Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest #4615033
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The bridge was designed by the English engineer William Tierney Clark in 1839, after Count Istvan Széchenyi's initiative in the same year, with construction supervised locally by Scottish engineer Adam Clark. It is a larger scale version of William Tierney Clark's earlier Marlow Bridge, across the River Thames in Marlow, England. The bridge was opened in 1849.