#john a roebling

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**Brooklyn Bridge: A Timeless Icon of Engineering and Resilience (1872 and 2008)**

The Brooklyn Bridge, completed in 1883 after its construction began in 1872, stands as a testament to human ingenuity and perseverance, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn over the East River. Designed by John A. Roebling and later completed under the supervision of his son, Washington Roebling, this architectural marvel was the first steel-wire suspension bridge, symbolizing progress and urban connectivity. Its massive granite towers and elegant cables captured the imagination of the 19th century and continue to inspire awe in modern times. By 2008, the bridge remained an integral part of New York City's identity, carrying thousands of vehicles and pedestrians daily while serving as a scenic and cultural landmark. Updates and restorations over the years have preserved its structural integrity and historic charm, highlighting its role as both a practical transportation link and a celebrated piece of American history. As a timeless fusion of art and engineering, the Brooklyn Bridge remains a global icon and a reminder of New York’s enduring spirit.

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"Pardon us while we change suspenders,” reads this sign by the Department of Public Works, placed outside the entrance to the Manhattan Bridge in 1955. "Don't want to get caught with our bridges down!”

John Roebling Sons Corp., the company that was doing the work, was founded in 1849 by the man who would later design the Brooklyn Bridge.

Photo: NYC Municipal Archives Instagram

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The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began on January 3, 1870.

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Tem no youtube: "As Summers Die" (Num certo verão, de 1986)

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After 14 years of construction, the Brooklyn Bridge over the East River opened in 1883, linking the cities of New York and Brooklyn for the first time. May 24, 1883.

Subscriber Content Add content here that will only be visible to your subscribers. Payment Image: Construction of Brooklyn Bridge, ca. 1872-1887. (Public Domain) On this day in history, May 24, 1883, after 14 years of construction, the Brooklyn Bridge over the East River opened in 1883, linking the cities of New York and Brooklyn for the first time. Thousands of Brooklyn and Manhattan Island…

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#TheEngineersWife #TraceyEnersonWood #BookReview #HistoricalFiction #WashingtonRoebling #BrooklynBridge #SourceBooksLandmark #AudiobookReview #RecordedBooks

Did you know that a woman was a major player in the building of the #BrooklynBridge? #EmilyRoebling was the wife of the chief engineer, who picked up the overseeing when her husband became ill. #TheEngineersWife #TraceyEnersonWood #BookReview #audiobook

Emily Roebling refuses to live conventionally—she knows who she is and what she wants, and she’s determined to make change. But then her husband asks the unthinkable: give up her dreams to make his possible. Emily’s fight for women’s suffrage is put on hold, and her life transformed when her husband Washington Roebling, the Chief Engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, is injured on the job. Untrained…

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☕️ Underrated historical figures

I will give you three New York ladies:

Emily Roebling: Emily was married to Washington Roebling, who was the son of John Roebling, who designed the Brooklyn Bridge. When John died of tetanus very early in the construction process, Washington became the chief engineer, but he eventually collapsed due to "caisson sickness" (aka decompression sickness/the bends, which wasn't understood at the time and which many bridge workers fell prey to while they were constructing the underwater supports for the bridge). Emily was the only person he spoke to for like...the next decade, and she took over unofficially as chief engineer, acting as the go-between with his workers and wrangling politicians, engineers, workers, and basically everyone else involved in the bridge to keep the process moving. She was the first person to cross it on opening day, and then went on to get a law degree and champion women's rights.

Victoria Woodhull: The first woman to run for president (in 1972). One of the first women to open a brokerage firm on Wall Street, with her sister Tennessee Clafin. One of the first women to start a newspaper in the US, also with Tennessee. Her biography is absolutely zany, beginning with her parents making her pretend to be a spirit medium as a child and climaxing with her exposing the scandalous affair of superstar minister Henry Ward Beecher in her paper and getting arrested for obscenity for it. She was certainly not a perfect or even particularly consistent person, but she was a suffragist and an abolitionist and her life story is wildly entertaining. There should 100% be a movie about her.

Texas Guinan: The first female Western star in the early silent era, Texas made a few dozen movies playing a cowgirl before moving to New York and becoming the hostess for a series of speakeasies during Prohibition. She was famous for greeting guests with "Hello, suckers!" and generally for being witty and irreverent. She was raided and arrested but never convicted, and when she died a month before the end of Prohibition, twelve thousand people attended her funeral. Supposedly, Gene Roddenberry named Whoopi Goldberg's character on Star Trek after her.

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Evening cloak. 1885–89. Credit line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Anonymous Gift, in memory of Mrs. John Roebling, 1970 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/157442

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The Gilded Age S2 Bingo Card Recap for 2.05 - Close Enough to Touch

Free Space

Zipper down the back of a dress: Surprisingly few this episode!

#zipgate

Squares to Check Off After 2.05

Ada rebels against Agnes in a significant way: Marrying Luke Forte

Brook family trauma: Agnes discussing her history with Ada

Drinking alcohol in the morning: Larry & his friend from Harvard, Malcom Keene

George and Bertha kiss

Historical figure namedrop: Mr. Washington Roebling and John A. Roebling

Historical figure shows up: Emily Warren Roebling, architect and engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge

New England mentioned

Recurring character repeats an outfit: Maud Beaton

Tragic backstory reveal: The Sturts

Subjective Squares After 2.05

A wedding is crashed: Agnes making her dramatic appearance at Ada and Luke's wedding after she said she wouldn't attend

Incredibly serious topic immediately followed by a frivolous conflict given the same weight: The Tuskegee plotline - if you have this square without "given the same weight" you can check that off regardless!

Secondhand embarrassment/extreme cringe: Always multiple options

Basically any of the following could be true depending on your definition of "yell":

Agnes yells at a family member

Agnes yells at Oscar

Agnes yells at Ada

Agnes yells at Marian

Agnes yells at someone other than Marian, Oscar, or Ada

Blackout Preventing Squares

None this episode!

Did I miss anything? Do you have a different scene in mind for a square above? Let me know in a reblog or reply!

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Birthdays 5.27

Beer Birthdays

Nicholas Kessler (1833)

Morimoto Masaharu (1955)

Sarah Huska (1986)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Miles Davis; jazz trumpeter (1926)

Bobcat Goldthwait; comedian, actor (1962)

Jay Silverheels; actor (1919)

Matt Stone; animator, actor (1971)

John Wayne; actor (1907)

Famous Birthdays

James Arness; actor (1923)

Helena Bonham Carter (1966)

Peter Cushing; actor (1913)

Isadora Duncan; dancer (1878)

Pam Grier; actor (1949)

Levon Helm; pop singer (1940)

Kylie Ireland; porn actor (1972)

Al Jolson; actor (1886)

Lenny Kravitz; pop singer (1964)

Dorothea Lange; photographer (1895)

Peggy Lee; singer (1920)

Queen Mary; queen of England (1867)

Moondog; composer, poet (1916)

Robert Morley; actor (1908)

Brent Musburger; television sportscaster (1939)

Stevie Nicks; pop singer (1948)

Alexander Pushkin; poet (1799)

Washington Augustus Roebling; engineer (1837)

Mick Ronson; rock guitarist (1946)

Sally Ride; astronaut (1951)

Philip Michael Thomas; actor (1949)

Hank Williams Jr.; country singer (1949)

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On this date in 1883 the Brooklyn Bridge opened. Designed by John Roebling, it spans 1,595 feet and cost $16m to build over 14 years. One of my fave landmarks here in NYC.

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Who built the Brooklyn bridge: slaves or free people.

The Brooklyn Bridge, one of the most iconic landmarks in New York City, was built by a combination of skilled workers, including both free people and those who were considered to be in various forms of unfree or low-wage labor.

The bridge was designed by John Augustus Roebling, a highly regarded German-American civil engineer. Construction on the Brooklyn Bridge began in 1869 and was completed in 1883, taking around 14 years to build. Unfortunately, John Augustus Roebling contracted tetanus during the initial stages of construction and passed away. His son, Washington Roebling, took over as the chief engineer of the project.

During the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, labor was provided by a diverse workforce. Many skilled workers, engineers, and professionals were hired, and the majority were paid wages for their work. However, some unskilled and low-wage workers, including many Irish immigrants and African Americans, were involved in the construction as well.

Given the time period, it is important to note that the labor conditions and worker rights were different from today's standards. Some workers may have faced unfair treatment and low pay, but it is not accurate to say that slaves were involved in building the Brooklyn Bridge. Slavery was abolished in the United States with the passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865, prior to the start of construction on the bridge.

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The Brooklyn Bridge

Originally called the "New York and Brooklyn Bridge" or the "East River Bridge" prior to gaining its current name in 1915, the iconic Brooklyn Bridge is one of the engineering marvels of the 19th century.

Completed in 1883, the bridge was initially designed by engineer John Augustus Roebling (1806–1869) and completed under the auspices of his son, Washington Augustus Roebling (1837–1926), and his daughter-in-law, Emily Warren Roebling (1843 – 1903). Their creation linked the cities of Brooklyn and New York via what was then the world's longest suspension bridge just a few years before the counties surrounding Manhattan Island were combined to form today's New York City.

Despite the brilliance of the Roeblings, the usually reliable and predictable geography of New York played havoc with the placement of the bridge's Manhattan tower. Huge work areas called "caissons" were sunk into the East River, pressurized, and then workers entered the caissons to dig into the riverbed in search of bedrock. The effort on the Brooklyn side proceeded as the Roeblings expected, but on the Manhattan side bedrock was never hit.

After digging about 80 feet down and watching worker after worker fall from "Caisson Disease" (today called "the bends"), the Roeblings ordered the Manhattan caisson to be filled with concrete, thus creating the base for the tower on the Manhattan side. The same process was done on the Brooklyn side, but with the difference that bedrock was hit and dug into for that tower.

The end result? The Brooklyn side of the bridge is standing on concrete and anchored in bedrock. Conversely, the Manhattan side—the one where the tower is placed in the waters of the East River—is freestanding on a massive concrete block and largely held in place by sand and its own 90,000-ton weight. Keep that in mind when reading the following information that is known to be true by many who've driven past the Manhattan side of the bridge:

To this day, despite the many threats facing America and the money spent to ensure its safety, the exposed and unsecured Manhattan support of the Brooklyn Bridge remains unanchored and unprotected.

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The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge was formally opened on January 1, 1867.

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The Golden Gate Bridge's builders introduced many innovations, but perhaps the most impressive was the precise and efficient technique they used to construct the massive cables.

The bridge's designers carefully calculated the graceful dip of the suspension cables between the two towers to carry the needed weight. The cables had to be flexible enough to bend up to 27 feet laterally, in the Gate's formidable winds, and strong enough to support the structure of the bridge. The planned cables would be so long and strong that they would need to be fabricated in place.

The well-known engineering company of John Roebling and Sons oversaw the cable construction. Roebling had built many of the world's longest bridges -- including the Brooklyn Bridge, 52 years earlier. The firm had devised the most efficient strength-to-rigidity ratio for cables. It had also developed a technique of spinning cables on-site. The Roebling crew's work on the Golden Gate Bridge continued a tradition of innovation.

Cable spinning began in October 1935. To create the cables, Roebling developed a method called parallel wire construction. The innovative technique enabled a cable of any length and thickness to be formed by binding together thin wires. It promised to give engineers the freedom to build a bridge of infinite length.

Hundreds of wires, each roughly the diameter of a pencil, were bound together into strands. Hydraulic jacks then bundled and compressed 61 strands to make a cable. Each of the two main cables is just over three feet in diameter, 7,659 feet long and contains 27,572 parallel wires. The Golden Gate uses the largest bridge cables ever made -- long enough to encircle the world more than three times at the equator.

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Lanzamientos de Unheardof x adidas Rivalry Low “Building Bridges” en octubre de 2024

Unheardof y adidas se han asociado en un proyecto especial que destaca la rica historia y la arquitectura icónica de Cincinnati. Su colaboración es Unheardof x adidas Rivalry Low “Construyendo puentes” Inspirado en el puente John A. Roebling. Este puente histórico simboliza la conexión entre Cincinnati y Kentucky, y también refleja la conexión personal del fundador Phil Lipshutz tanto con el…