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	John August Roebling, Muehlhausen & Brooklyn Bridge
		John August Roebling died from tetanus whilst New York's Brooklyn Bridge was build.
		John August Roebling married and found employment as an engineer.
		John August Roebling wrote his journey down: You can get copies of his 'Diary of my Journey from Muehlhausen in Thuringia via Bremen to the United States of North America in the Year 1831' via Abebooks UK
	www.natureparktravel.com /muehlhausen/johann-august-roebling.htm

	JOHN ROEBLING, PENNSYLVANIA BIOGRAPHIES
		John A. Roebling is most famous for building the Brooklyn Bridge, but he was largely responsible for the development of the wire rope used in bridge building as well as other industries.
		John Roebling had been trying to convince people of the practicality of a suspension bridge to connect Brooklyn and Manhattan, and the traveling difficulties caused by the winter of 1866-1867 won him the award.
		John Roebling's plans were put into being by his son, with the Brooklyn Bridge opening in 1883, serving as John Roebling's most noted achievement.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/4547/roebling.html

	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 1848, Roebling undertook the construction of four suspension aqueducts on the Delaware and Hudson Canal.
		Roebling's next project, starting in 1851, was a railroad bridge connecting the New York Central and Great Western Railway of Canada over the Niagara River, which would take four years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_August_Roebling (761 words)

	Speech by D. B. Steinman about Suspension Bridge
		John August Roebling, born in 1806 in Muhlhausen in Thuringia, revealed unusual endowments and qualities from boyhood -- quick intelligence, nervous energy, and an active brain.
		The story of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge is linked with the names of the two pioneer bridgebuilders who made suspension bridge history -- Charles Ellet, Jr., of Philadelphia and John A. Roebling of Pittsburgh.
		Roebling, then engaged in engineering work at the opposite end of the state, near Pittsburgh, was excited by the announcement that the proposed Fairmount span was to be a wire suspension.
	wheeling.weirton.lib.wv.us /landmark/bridges/susp/bridge3.htm (761 words)

	John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge
		John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in the news
		No such bridge had ever been built, but engineer John August Roebling submitted a design and was awarded the job.
		The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/J/John-A.-Roebling-Suspension-Bridge.htm (761 words)

	JOHN ROEBLING, PENNSYLVANIA BIOGRAPHIES
		John August Roebling was born in Mublhausen, Germany in 1806 to Friederike Dorothea Roebling and educated in Berlin.
		John Roebling's plans were put into being by his son, with the Brooklyn Bridge opening in 1883, serving as John Roebling's most noted achievement.
		John A. Roebling is most famous for building the Brooklyn Bridge, but he was largely responsible for the development of the wire rope used in bridge building as well as other industries.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/4547/roebling.html (523 words)

	Roebling, John Augustus
		Roebling had established the effleiency of the suspension principle for railroad bridges, and of developing their construction, he was chosen chief engineer of the proposed bridge.
		Roebling undertook the construction of a series of four suspension aqueducts on the line of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, connecting the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania with the tidewater of the Hudson River; they were all completed in the course of two years, as follows:
		Roebling across the Kentucky River, on the line of the Southern Railroad leading from Cincinnati to Chattanooga.
	www.inventionfactory.com /history/RHAgen/jarbio.html (1349 words)

	MSN Encarta - Roebling
		Roebling, John Augustus (1806-1869), American civil engineer, who was one of the pioneers in the construction of suspension bridges.
		Roebling was born in Mühlhausen, Germany, and educated at the Royal Polytechnic School, Berlin.
		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.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559435/Roebling.html (176 words)

	Miniature Railroad&Village
		German immigrant John Augustus Roebling founded the town of Saxonburg, located 35 miles north of Pittsburgh, in 1832.
		Roebling recognized the need for a stronger and smaller cable than the large hemp ropes that were used to pull the canal boats up and over the Portage Railroad so he invented a strong wire cable in his Saxonburg workshop.
		Roebling died in 1869 from an accident he sustained while supervising the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, leaving Washington to manage its completion in 1883.
	www.carnegiesciencecenter.org /csc/cover/roebling.html (436 words)

	John Augustus Roebling - Great Buildings Online
		John Roebling was born in Muhlhausen, Thuringia in 1806.
		As a father and son, John and Washington Roebling were the foremost American engineers of suspension bridge construction in the nineteenth century.
		John Roebling completed dozens of major works and designed the largest bridge span of his lifetime.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/John_Augustus_Roebling.html (293 words)

	MSN Encarta - Roebling
		John Roebling (1806-1869), American civil engineer, who was one of the pioneers in the construction of suspension bridges.
		Roebling was born in Mühlhausen, Germany, and educated at the Royal Polytechnic School, Berlin.
		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.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559435/Roebling.html (174 words)

	Washington Roebling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following the Brooklyn project, Roebling and his wife lived in Troy, New York, from 1884-88, as their only child, John A. Roebling, II, attended RPI.
		Washington Augustus Roebling (May 26, 1837 – July 21, 1926) was an American civil engineer, best known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge, started by his father John A. Roebling.
		Washington Roebling was born in the Pittsburgh area town of Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, a town co-founded by his father and his uncle, Karl Roebling.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Washington_Roebling (631 words)

	JOHN ROEBLING, PENNSYLVANIA BIOGRAPHIES
		John August Roebling was born in Mublhausen, Germany in 1806 to Friederike Dorothea Roebling and educated in Berlin.
		John A. Roebling is most famous for building the Brooklyn Bridge, but he was largely responsible for the development of the wire rope used in bridge building as well as other industries.
		John Roebling's plans were put into being by his son, with the Brooklyn Bridge opening in 1883, serving as John Roebling's most noted achievement.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/4547/roebling.html (523 words)

	National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
		John A. Roebling was the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge and is considered one of the greatest bridge builders of all times.
		John A. Roebling and Washington Roebling were not only father and son, respectively, they were also master bridge builders whose engineering marvels still exist today.
		Following John Roebling's death in 1869, Washington built the Brooklyn Bridge according to his father's designs.
	www.mississippirivermuseum.com /fame/roebling.cfm (176 words)

	Red Hill Estate / Archbold Biological Station as a Part of the Historical Legacy of the Roebling and Archbold Families, 25 May 2005, Fred E. Lohrer.
		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).
		John’s son, Richard was the mammalogist and photographer on this expedition (Rand 1936, ABS Archives).
		Roebling was founded in 1905 as an industrial town adjacent to the Roebling Steel Company (hot mills, steel and copper wire mills, woven wire fabrics mills) which was constructed concurrently during 1904-1906 < http:capitalcentury.com/1905.html>.
	www.archbold-station.org /abs/archbold/legacyRoeblingArchbold.htm (5355 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.
		Designed by John Roebling and completed by his son Washington Roebling, the Brooklyn Bridge links the boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan across the East River in New York City.
		Roebling is the name of two American engineers, father and son, who were pioneers in the development of suspension bridges and wire cable.
	www.germanheritage.com /biographies/mtoz/roebling.html (5355 words)

	John A Roebling Suspension Bridge
		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".
		Roebling had been trained at the Royal Polytechnic Institute in Berlin but left Germany in 1831 because he felt the system there discouraged innovation.
		Even though the steamboat operators were against the building of a bridge, the bridge committee asked for the input of two bridge engineers, Charles Ellet and Johann August Roebling.
	www.rootsweb.com /~kycampbe/roeblinghistory.htm (5355 words)

	John Angustus Roebling
		ROEBLING, John Angustus (ray'-bling), civil engineer, born in Muhlhausen, Prussia, 12 June, 1806; died in Brooklyn, New York, 22 July, 1869.
		You are in: Museum of History >> Hall of North and South Americans >> John Angustus Roebling
		Roebling must be conceded the claim of practically establishing the sufficiency of the suspension principle for railroad bridges and of developing the manner of their construction." His eminent success in this line of work led in 1868 to his being chosen chief engineer of the East river bridge, connecting Brooklyn and New York.
	www.famousamericans.net /johnangustusroebling (5355 words)

	A Brief History of Science and Technology
		Other inventions of the era include Isaac Singer's lockstitch sewing machine; John Hyatt's celluloid, a substance that was used in Victorian shirt collars; John Roebling's steel cable, which as used to construct the Brooklyn Bridge; and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper that made America a world-class wheat producer.
		In August of 1900, Wilbur built his first glider, and immediately contacted the U.S. Weather Bureau for information on windy regions of the country.
		The first motion pictures were developed from the technological advances of inventors such as Thomas Edison and Louis and August Lumiere.
	www.erasofelegance.com /sciencehistory.html (5355 words)

	Brooklyn Bridge Web Page
		John Roebling designed four suspension aqueducts for the D and H Canal: the Lackawaxen and Delaware Aqueducts, the Neversink Aqueduct (Neversink Valley Area Museum in Cuddebackville, NY), and the High Falls Aqueduct (D & H Canal Historical Society and Museum in High Falls, NY).
		Son, Washington Roebling, carries on John Roebling's work.
		A German immigrant, and graduate of the Royal Polytechnic School of Berlin, Roebling came to the United States in 1831.
	www.endex.com /gf/buildings/bbridge/roebling/roebling.htm (243 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.
		Designed by John Roebling and completed by his son Washington Roebling, the Brooklyn Bridge links the boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan across the East River in New York City.
		Roebling is the name of two American engineers, father and son, who were pioneers in the development of suspension bridges and wire cable.
	germanheritage.com /biographies/mtoz/roebling.html (530 words)

	Brooklyn Bridge - New York Architecture Info
		John Roebling originally envisioned the anchorages could be used as public space.
		John was standing on a group of pilings at Fulton Ferry watching the project's progress when a ferry slammed into a fender which abutted the timbers he was perched on.
		Roebling's toes had to be amputated, but he refused further medical attention and died a short time later, becoming yet another victim of the Bridge.
	www.newyorkarchitecture.info /BuildingDetail.php?BuildingID=NYAI9 (916 words)

	The Brooklyn Bridge
		The inventor and designerof the Brooklyn Bridge, John Augustus Roebling, was born in the town of Muhlhausen in Thuringen in (northern Germany) on June 12, 1860 the son of a poor tobacconist.
		1867 -- John Augustus Roebling brings forth a plan to build a steel suspension bridge that will span the East River and connect Brooklyn (not yet incorporated as a borough of the City of New York) with Manhattan, and presents it to William C. Kingsley, the influential publisher of the Brooklyn Eagle.
		Emily Warren Roebling was born on September 23, 1843, in the town of Cold Spring, Putnam County, New York, the second of twelve children to sylvanus and Phebe Lickley Warren.
	www.brooklynbridgeusa.com (1998 words)

	2002 Inductees - John Augustus Roebling
		19th century pioneer in suspension bridge construction, John Augustus Roebling is best remembered for designing the Brooklyn Bridge, although all his successes were literally tied to his invention of twisted wire rope.
		Roebling's son, Washington, completed the project in 1883.
		By 1848, Roebling had silenced his critics by using his cable to build several suspension bridges, mostly in Pennsylvania.
	www.njinvent.njit.edu /2002/roebling.html (299 words)

	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives
		John Roebling died as a result of an accident at the outset, and his son, Washington, taking over as chief engineer, suffered a crippling attack of caisson disease (the bends) in 1872 while supervising work in the compressed air chamber used in building the huge granite towers from which the bridge was suspended.
		John Roebling was born in Mühlhausen, Germany and educated in Berlin.
		Today's Honorary Subscriber is the pair of civil engineers, John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869) and his son Washington Augustus Roebling (1837-1926), who together designed and built the Brooklyn Bridge which spans the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan Island, New York City.
	www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=296 (564 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - John Augustus Edwin
		Roebling, John Augustus (1806-1869), German-born American civil engineer, who was one of the pioneers in the construction of suspension bridges....
		John, Augustus Edwin (1878-1961), British portrait painter, born in Tenby, Wales.
		In 1804 Stevens built a twin-screw steamship and in 1807, with his son Robert Livingston Stevens, built the paddle-wheeled steamboat Phoenix, which...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /John_Augustus_Edwin.html (87 words)

	Construction Materials Purchase - Feb 2004
		Roebling then called the board of consulting engineers after completing his design to examine his plans, three other engineers from war department also examined to see whether or not the bridge would be an obstruction to navigation.
		Roebling proposed that steel wire, rather than the usual iron, be used; that the span be built as close to City Hall park as possible and that the structure be not only safe beyond all doubt but esthetically satisfying.
		In spite of Roebling’s inability to supervise the work, his wife did excellent effort, she was so involved in the project, that she was the first person to ride across the span during the opening ceremony while president Chester Arthur and New York Governor Grover Cleveland followed Mrs.
	www.indianpurchase.com /magonline/construction/200402/article5.htm (3452 words)

	John Augustus Roebling Biography / Biography of John Augustus Roebling Main Biography
		John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869), German-born American engineer, was noted for introducing the manufacture of wire rope to America and for constructing magnificent suspension bridges.
		John Roebling was born in Mühlhausen, Thuringia (now part of Germany), on June 12, 1806.
		Unsuccessful as a farmer, Roebling returned to engineering in 1837 and was employed by the state of Pennsylvania on various canal and railroad projects.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-john-augustus-roebling (232 words)

	Roebling's Amphibian The Origin Of The Assault Amphibian
		John Roebling's landmark contribution to the science of bridge building was his invention of high strength steel wire.
		He also built a lovely winter home in Lake Placid, Florida, thirty-five miles northwest of Lake Okeechobee in the Florida Everglades.4 By the 1920s, John A. Roebling II had become a nationally noted financier, entre- preneur, philanthropist, and humanitarian.
		Roebling was addicted to candy and other sweets and his extraordinary physique featured over 400 pounds of body weight primarily concentrated in his enormous buttocks and thighs.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1987/RRW.htm (12802 words)

	Bridges Over Niagara Falls
		While John Roebling and his son, Washington A. Roebling were surveying near the Fulton ferry slip, a ferry-boat crushed of one of Roebling’s feet between the piling and rack of one of the slips.
		John A. Roebling was invited to make plans and estimates for the bridge, and was at the same time appointed the engineer.
		In 1846, John A. Roebling built the Monongahela River Suspension Bridge at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	www.iaw.com /~falls/bridges.html#b18 (10055 words)

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