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	John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A view of the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge from Covington, Kentucky on the south bank of the Ohio River with Cincinnati in the background
		The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky.
		When the Roebling Bridge was formally opened on January 1, 1867, the driver of a horse and buggy was charged a toll of 15 cents to cross; the toll for three horses and a carriage was 25 cents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_A._Roebling_Suspension_Bridge (664 words)

	John A. Roebling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Augustus Roebling (born Johann August Röbling, June 12, 1806 in Mühlhausen - July 22, 1869) was a German-born civil engineer famous for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, in particular, the design of the Brooklyn Bridge.
		John grew up in the city of Mühlhausen where the design of his bridges can be seen in the architecture of the city.
		In 1848, Roebling undertook the construction of four suspension aqueducts on the Delaware and Hudson Canal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Augustus_Roebling (1137 words)

	Red Hill Estate / Archbold Biological Station as a Part of the Historical Legacy of the Roebling and Archbold Families, ...
		John’s son, Richard was the mammalogist and photographer on this expedition (Rand 1936, ABS Archives).
		Roebling buildings/structures still in use include; two deep-water docks and a machine shop, a steel and concrete cattle barn that now functions as laboratory and storage space, and several Roebling buildings that are for student and visiting scientist housing (Megathlin 2003).
		After her death, John A. Roebling continued support of the park’s development and maintenance (fencing, and construction of roads, paths, and water-control structures), contributing a further $300,000 during 1931-1934, when his Red Hill Estate engineer, Alexander Blair, was also the supervisory engineer for the park.
	www.archbold-station.org /abs/archbold/legacyRoeblingArchbold.htm (5367 words)

	Johann August Röbling
		Sein Sohn Washington August Roebling, schon in den USA geboren, trat als Ingenieur in die Fußstapfen seines Vaters: in 14 jähriger Bauzeit führte er das Riesenbauwerk aus.
		John August Roebling became famous not only for his large spanned suspension bridges like the Niagara- or Cincinnati-Ohio-Bridge, his pioneering work in bridge building was also the basis for the wire cable industry in America.
		John August Roebling was born at June 12th of 1806 in the German town Mühlhausen.
	forge.fh-potsdam.de /~Bauing/forschung/roebling/index.htm (460 words)

	Roebling 1983 Euster
		I have known the man for a quarter of a century, and continue to be rewarded by his friendship, his personal generosity, his demand for truth, and by his creativity.
		One hundred years ago this spring, a bridge built by John Augustus Roebling, father, and Washington Augustus Roebling, son, was dedicated which to this day connects Brooklyn with Manhattan across the East River.
		John Augustus Roebling, or if you permit me to deanglicize his name, Hans-August Röbling, was born in Prussia in 1806.
	www.minsocam.org /msa/collectors_corner/arc/roebling83.htm (2132 words)

	Brooklyn Museum - 50th Anniversary
		ROEBLING'S death was a distinct shock to all who knew him or knew of him and the editorials appearing in the New York and Brooklyn newspapers and many trade and scientific journals all lauded his achievements as an engineer and expressed the sense of loss which the community and the country had suffered.
		ROEBLING was called upon to undertake the construction of a railway suspension bridge at Niagara Falls and in 1854, the structure was completed, being the first wire cable suspension bridge capable of bearing the weight of a moving locomotive and train.
		ROEBLING, upon his return, became his father's chief assistant and was thoroughly and intimately familiar with the general scheme of the Brooklyn Bridge project, and upon the death of JOHN A. ROEBLING in July, 1869, the son was regarded as the logical man to succeed his father and carryon the work.
	www.endex.com /gf/buildings/bbridge/bbridgenews/bb50/bb50.htm (12824 words)

	German American Corner: ROEBLING, John Augustus (1806-69)
		ROEBLING, John Augustus (1806-69), German-American, civil engineer, who was one of the pioneers in the construction of suspension bridges.
		Roebling is the name of two American engineers, father and son, who were pioneers in the development of suspension bridges and wire cable.
		He then demonstrated the practicability of steel cables in bridge construction and in 1841 established at Saxonburg the first factory to manufacture steel-wire rope in the U.S. Roebling utilized steel cables in the construction of numerous suspension bridges and is generally considered one of the pioneers in the field of suspension-bridge construction.
	www.germanheritage.com /biographies/mtoz/roebling.html (530 words)

	Brooklyn Bridge Facts and Information
		John A. Roebling immigrated - 1831 (to Pennsylvania intending to be a farmer)
		John Roebling, the bridge's engineer, envisioned this space as a double-tiered commercial arcade, or vault for the national treasury.
		Washington Roebling specified a tested wire strength of 160 ksi (twice that of iron), and required that the wire be galvanized, to resist corrosion by the salt air.
	www.endex.com /gf/buildings/bbridge/bbridgefacts.htm (3575 words)

	New Jersey: John A. Roebling Company: Suspension Bridges are Created (Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		German immigrant John A. Roebling invented wire rope in 1840, which allowed construction of suspension bridges, such as The George Washington Bridge.
		Roebling located his wire rope-making factory in Trenton because of the city's proximity to his iron source, the Cooper Iron Works.
		When the lower level of the George Washington Suspension Bridge opened on August 29, 1962, it was the strongest suspension bridge in existence, carrying fourteen lanes of roadway, and using 34 miles of wire rope.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /cocoon/legacies/NJ/200003301.html (260 words)

	TIME.com: Roebling's 100th -- Sep. 29, 1941 -- Page 1
		For the dinner celebrated the 100th anniver sary of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. of Trenton.
		John August Roebling was a bearded, philosophy-loving German engineer who led a group of his friends to the U.S. in 1831 to escape political and religious oppression.
		This gave John Roebling a chance to carry out a pet project which previously had been laughed down: the great Brooklyn Bridge with its 1,600-ft. center span.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,766172,00.html (647 words)

	John Augustus Roebling
		It was scarcely begun when Roebling, directing operations, was injured in an accident and died a few days later.
		John Roebling - John Roebling Born: 1806 Suspension Bridge.
		The age of the suspension bridge was ushered in by...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0842225.html (250 words)

	John Augustus Roebling - Great Buildings Online
		As a father and son, John and Washington Roebling were the foremost American engineers of suspension bridge construction in the nineteenth century.
		John Roebling was born in Muhlhausen, Thuringia in 1806.
		John Roebling completed dozens of major works and designed the largest bridge span of his lifetime.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/John_Augustus_Roebling.html (294 words)

	John Campbell: Timeline
		November 3 - John is severely injured in a car accident; Campbell lost sight in his right eye in the crash, a lung collapsed and 5,000 stitches were required to reconstruct his face.
		John records original arrangements of several blues standards including Walking Blues, The Sky is Crying, and Mojo Hand at Robin Hood Studios in Tyler, Texas.
		John performs at the Bermindale Festival in Bremen, Germany; the Golden Krone in Darmstadt; and at the Belgium Rhythm and Blues Festival in Peer, Belgium.
	www.devilinmycloset.net /john_campbell_timeline.htm (922 words)

	John A Roebling Suspension Bridge
		Roebling had been trained at the Royal Polytechnic Institute in Berlin but left Germany in 1831 because he felt the system there discouraged innovation.
		The bridge plan Roebling submitted to Cincinnati officials in 1846 was a 36 page document calling for a suspension bridge from Garrard Street in Covington to Main Street in Cincinnati.
		On March 24, 1983 the bridge was designated a National Historic Engineering Landmark and in July 1983 the state Transportation Cabinet officially renamed the span the "John A Roebling Suspension Bridge".
	www.rootsweb.com /~kycampbe/roeblinghistory.htm (676 words)

	John Roebling
		The age of the suspension bridge was ushered in by engineer and inventor Roebling.
		Roebling saw the potential of steel wire as a bridge building component and invented machinery to twist the wire into cables.
		John Augustus Roebling - Roebling, John Augustus, 1806–69, German-American engineer, b.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0931157.html (95 words)

	Latest News
		John A. Roebling, great-grandfather to Skidaway Institute of Oceanography's benefactor Robert C. Roebling, and best known for his achievements in suspension bridge building and as a wire-rope manufacturer was born in Mühlhausen, Germany on June 12, 1806, two-hundred years ago.
		The celebration of John A. Roebling's successful life was filled with many noteworthy events.
		The Roebling family members were very moved by the townspeople's efforts and appreciative of their willingness to "roll out the red carpet" to honor their ancestor and family name.
	www.skio.peachnet.edu /news (1852 words)

	History of the Roebling Buildings, Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, Florida, 25 May 2005, Fred E. Lohrer.
		The Roebling Red Hill Estate includes 6 concrete buildings (storehouse, garages, generator house, pump house, water treatment plant, explosives storehouse) and one steel water storage tank.
		Roebling exterior bronze, single passage doors still exist and in daily operation (2005) to; north classroom, laboratory, and bathroom, Unit B (south end), and office, lounge, and west kitchen.
		The original Roebling steel roll-down doors still function and all exterior fittings and construction not changed.
	www.archbold-station.org /abs/archbold/buildings.htm (1146 words)

	Structurae [en]: John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Roebling, John A. Final Report of John A. Roebling, civil engineer, to the presidents of the Niagara Falls suspension and Niagara Falls international bridge companies, Steam Press of Lee, Mann & Co., Rochester (USA), 1855.
		Roebling, John A. Memoir of the Niagara Falls Suspension and Niagara Falls International Bridge, London (United Kingdom), 1856.
		Roebling, John A. New York Bridge Company, on the proposed East River bridge, Daily Eagle Print, New York (USA), 1867.
	en.structurae.de /persons/data/index.cfm?ID=d000030 (383 words)

	Mrs. Ferner's Summer Reading List
		John, his sister, Lisa, and their parents move into a 100-year-old house, rumored to be haunted, near Princeton, New Jersey.
		When Washington Roebling, himself, was injured while working on the bridge, his wife supervised the building of the bridge to its completion in 1883.
		Emily Roebling was the first to cross this landmark, then, the tallest structure in North America, and the longest bridge in the world.
	www.websterschools.org /classrooms/state_library/summaries_my_summer_list.html (3658 words)

	Princeton University Senior Theses brief display
		Ishida, Hidekazu (1987): John Stuart Mill and the Notion of Corrigibility.
		Schaefer, Henry Reeb (1931): The Self-Education of John Keats.
		Young, John Kevin (1990): "This is Not a Pipe": The New Prose of Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and John Ashbery.
	libweb5.princeton.edu /theses/thesesvw.asp?Lname=&Fname=&Submit=Search&Title1=john&department=&Class=&Adviser= (8363 words)

	Eastern \| Events \| Metropolis Magazine
		Roebling was an innovator in steel technology and industrial engineering.
		With a hearty philosophical basis and a sharp understanding of engineering, Roebling began to tap into the 19th century’s need for industrial development.
		He invented twisted wire rope and founded the Roebling Wire Company, which made possible such modern marvels as the suspension bridge and the elevator.
	www.metropolismag.com /cda/events.php?region=Eastern (5398 words)

	Paid Notice: Deaths ROEBLING, FERDINAND W. III - New York Times
		He was the great gradson of John A. Roebling, the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge and the founder of John A. Roebling Sons Company of Trenton, New Jersey.
		He was the great nephew of Washington Roebling who completed construction of the Brooklyn Bridge as Designer and Chief Engineer after his father died during construction of the bridge.
		He was predeceased by his brother Joseph M. Roebling, who was Chairman of the Board of John A. Roebling Sons Company until 1953.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE0DE1F3EF933A15752C1A9639C8B63 (311 words)

	Trenton Downtowner -> : After 30 years, Roebling Mansion outlook is finally positive
		The house that Roebling moved into is depicted on a remarkably detailed “birds-eye view” of Trenton from 1872.
		During his funeral, the Roebling factories in Trenton and the town of Roebling fell silent for one hour in his honor.
		After the property passed from the Roebling estate in 1942, the new owners converted the building to offices, occupied mostly by lawyers, and bachelor apartments.
	www.trentondowntowner.com /default.php?article=887 (1235 words)

	Brooklyn Bridge New York City Tours
		Roebling was a German immigrant who, in his work on canals, had invented a wire cable that had already helped the rail lines to stretch over America's vast number of rivers.
		In a freak accident, John Roebling's foot was crushed.
		While Roebling would not agree to pay them the three dollars they asked for, he did stop the digging earlier than planned, on the mere chance that they had dug deep enough to secure a sturdy base.
	www.newyorkpartyshuttle.com /new-york-attractions/brooklyn-bridge-new-york.php (780 words)

	Author! Author! Article: Janine Ellen Young (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		His name was John Roebling, and the structure he envisioned would eventually be known as the Brooklyn Bridge.
		During the final years of the bridge’s construction, Washington Roebling’s wife, Emily, actually learned the craft of engineering in order to convey her husband’s demands to the crew bosses on site.
		John Roebling was an expansive soul who used stone and steel and physics to express the complexities of his mind.
	www.twbookmark.com /authorslounge/articles/2000/august/article10508.html (769 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Picture of the Day: Building the Brooklyn Bridge. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		When the Brooklyn Bridge’s first designer, John August Roebling, died in an accident just as work was about to begin, his son Washington took over for him.
		Washington Roebling’s original drawings for the bridge are nearly as beautiful as the structure itself.
		This plan, from around 1870, shows in striking detail an arrangement of bolts for the foundation caisson that was sunk on the Manhattan side.
	www.americanheritage.com /picture/?page=viewPicture&pictureID=223 (109 words)

	Brooklyn Bridge Walking Tour
		Learn how the Roebling family built one of the great marvels of the nineteenth century: John who designed it, his son Washington who built it, and Emily, Washington's wife who became the world's first woman engineer.
		John Augustus Roebling designed the bridge and was the first chief engineer.
		Emily Warren Roebling was the undersung heroine of the bridge.
	www.newyorktalksandwalks.com /brooklyn_bridge.html (913 words)

	The Butler, Pennsylvania Blog ~: Saxonburg's Founder ~ John August Roebling
		The Butler, Pennsylvania Blog ~: Saxonburg's Founder ~ John August Roebling
		Saxonburg celebrates its founder's 200th Birthday Anniversary ~ John Roebling is the Inventor of Twisted Steel Cable that made it possible for him to build the famous Brooklyn Bridge.
		There was a ice cream store in Saxonburg were my father used to take us on Sunday drives around the countryside.
	clcing.blogspot.com /2006/06/saxonburgs-founder-john-august.html (275 words)

	PA State Archives - MG-163 - Scope and Content Note - Hubertis M. Cummings Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		"John August Roebling and the Public Works of Pennsylvania," manuscript of 78 pp.
		"Modest Proposal of John August Roebling," manuscript of 12 pp.
		ft.; and photographs, 1947-57, featuring Pennsylvania's capitol buildings, Harrisburg street scenes, the John Harris Mansion, bridges, canal and river scenes, flood scenes, forges and furnaces, iron and steel works, railroad and coal operations, etc., 2 cu.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /bah/dam/mg/mg163.htm (415 words)

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