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The bridge was the idea of [[Joseph Strauss]], an engineer responsible for over 400 drawbridges, though they were far smaller than this project and mostly inland.<ref name="Denton"/> Starting in 1921 with his first drawings that were far from approved,<ref name="Owens"/> Strauss spent over a decade drumming up support in Northern California. Strauss' initial design<ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1999 | url = http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/exhibits/bridge/up028.html | title = Bridging the Bay: Bridges That Never Were | format = | work = | publisher = UC Berkeley Library | accessdate = 2006-04-13|accessyear = }}</ref> comprised a massive [[cantilever]] on each side connected with a central suspension segment. Other key figures in the bridge's construction include architect [[Irving Morrow]], responsible for the [[Art Deco]] touches and the choice of color, and engineer [[Charles A. Ellis|Charles Alton Ellis]] and bridge designer [[Leon Moisseiff]], who collaborated on the complicated mathematics involved.
The project cost over $27
In May 1924, a hearing, through a petition, was heard by Colonel Herbert Deakyne for the Secretary of War in a request to use land for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. Col. Deakyne, in the Secretary of War's name, approved to give the land needed for the bridge structure and leading roads to the "Bridging the Golden Gate Association" and both the San Francisco and the Marin counties pending further bridge plans by Mr. Strauss.<ref>Miller, John B. (2002) "Case Studies in Infrastructure Delivery" ''Springer''. 296 pp. ISBN 0-7923-7652-8.</ref>
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