Gridiron - Architecture and Engineering

Architecture and Engineering

  • Gridiron plan, in urban planning, a system that describes an ordered arrangement of streets in a regular grid pattern, intersecting at right angles
  • In theatres, a metal framework suspended above the stage from which lights and other items are hung
  • Gridiron pendulum, a part of a pendulum clock as designed by John Harrison
  • In marine salvage, a ship, especially a wooden ship, at the end of its life is settled onto a gridiron to keep the hull clear

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