Bridges Completed in 1883 - Brooklyn Bridge, Niagara Cantilever Bridge, Stone Arch Bridge, Bridge L-158, Smithfield Street Bridge (Paperback)

Chapters: Brooklyn Bridge, Niagara Cantilever Bridge, Stone Arch Bridge, Bridge L-158, Smithfield Street Bridge, Pont Au Double, Sim Smith Covered Bridge, Blauwbrug, Cedar Bridge. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Brooklyn Bridge - Plan of one tower for the Brooklyn Bridge, 1867The Brooklyn Bridge opened to great fanfare in May 1883. The names of John A. Roebling, Washington Roebling, and Emily Warren Roebling are inscribed on the structure as its builders. It was initially designed by German-born John Augustus Roebling in Trenton, New Jersey. Roebling had earlier designed and constructed other suspension bridges, such as Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, and the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio, that served as the engineering prototypes for the final design. During surveying for the East River Bridge project, Roebling's foot was badly injured by a ferry, pinning it against a piling. This badly crushed his toes, causing those toes to be amputated, leaving him incapacitated; he died shortly afterward of a tetanus infection caused by his injury and leaving his son, Washington Roebling, in charge of the bridge. Construction began on January 3, 1870, under the supervision of the younger Roebling. Not long after taking charge of the bridge, Washington Roebling suffered a paralyzing injury as well, the result of decompression sickness. This condition plagued many of the underwater workers, in different capacities, as the condition was relatively unknown at the time and in fact was first called "caisson disease" by the project physician Dr. Andrew Smith. The occurrence of the disease in the caisson workers caused him to halt construction of the Manhattan side of the tower 30 feet () short of bedrock when soi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=47742