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She Was One Of The Most Influential People In The Construction Of The Brooklyn Bridge, Overseeing The Completion Of The Project After Her Husband Became Ill An…
The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge had a horrible start. John, who designed the bridge, as he is famous for designing ...
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A look at the pre-construction work happening at the Key Bridge remains
As you can imagine," Harkness said, "the information that is related to the soils is of the utmost importance when you’re ...
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The history of the Royal Gorge Bridge, built 1,000 feet above the Arkansas River
For nearly a century a bridge has spanned the Royal Gorge nearly 1,000 feet above the Arkansas River near Cañon City. The ...
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What Did Brooklyn Bridge Park Get So Right?
Improbably, Brooklyn Bridge Park exists ... first Dutch settlement on Governors Island to skyscrapers still under construction. Within that immensity, Van Valkenburgh’s team fashioned pockets ...
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Spinning the Cables
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.
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Jumbo’s stroll over New York’s Brooklyn Bridge
The ‘world’s biggest elephant’ helped to raise awareness about the famous bridge’s safety, while also promoting P.T. Barnum’s circus. Following 13 years of construction, New York’s ...
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Commentary: What Albany can learn from Brooklyn Bridge Park
Every year, more than five million visitors enter Brooklyn Bridge Park, the 85-acre strip of land hugging Brooklyn’s East River coastline, to play games, exercise, take in a concert or just ...