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	Biography -- Washington Augustus Roebling
		With Emily, Washington discussed the detailed blueprints, and with her he shared all of his and his father's bridge building plans and dreams.
		Washington Roebling, the Civil War hero and official Chief Engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, appeared pale, showed no excitement, and could stand for only ten minutes at a time.
		Obviously, Washington Roebling was an extremely energetic and intellectually charged individual.
	civilwarstudies.org /articles/Vol_3/roebling.htm (800 words)

	Red Hill Estate / Archbold Biological Station as a Part of the Historical Legacy of the Roebling and Archbold Families, ...
		A long-time resident of Washington, DC, Anne Archbold was a strong supporter of science (see section 4c), parks and conservation (see section 5b), and the the Gallinger Municipal (later DC General) Hospital, where they named the hospital Nurses Residence the Anne Archbold Hall, in honor of her support.
		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).
		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 (5345 words)

	PBS VIDEOdatabase of America's History and Culture -- Chapters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Washington Roebling took over the Brooklyn Bridge project at the age of 32 on his father's death, on April 9, 1870.
		Roebling made a daring decision to halt the base of the second tower 30 feet short of bedrock; to this day, the second tower rests on sand.
		Washington Roebling's sons unveiled large exhibits of their inventions at America's Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, held in 1876.
	pbsvideodb.pbs.org /programs/all_chapters.asp?item_id=3299 (1161 words)

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		His wife, Emily Roebling, would run messages for Washington to his foremen, and it is thanks to her patience and understanding that the Washington Roebling was able to oversee the completion of his father’s masterpiece.
		Emily Roebling, Washington Roebling’s wife, who contributed very much to the construction of the bridge was given the first ride across.[2] She carried a rooster on her lap as a symbol of victory.
		Roebling had to calculate the amount of weight that the cables used for the bridge would be able to hold.
	www.pitt.edu /~joz3/engineeringevent.html (2825 words)

	Roebling's Amphibian The Origin Of The Assault Amphibian
		Washington Augustus Roebling, Donald Roebling's grandfather, was born in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania in 1837.
		Washington Roebling built a new factory for the expanding company eight miles south of Trenton on the Delaware River and estab- lished a model town around the factory.
		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)

	Blueprints Magazine Winter 1986 page 8
		Roebling, well educated in the theory and design of civil engineering, was one of the organizers.
		Washington Roebling, just 32 years of age, was thrust into a leadership role to carry out his father's design for the world's longest clear span bridge.
		One would naturally assume that the Roebling firm, who were well known suppliers of wire products, would supply the wire; but this was not the case because a member of the bridge company directors decided it was a conflict of interest.
	www.nbm.org /blueprints/80s/winter86/page8/page8.htm (1671 words)

	Cover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Roebling described the caissons as “a huge diving bell that would be built of wood and iron, shaped like a gigantic box, with a heavy roof, strong sides, and no bottom” [McCullough, 1972].
		Roebling wanted the bridge to be stiff yet flexible, stiff enough to hold up the load from the roadway and flexible enough to take into consideration thermal expansion.
		Roebling decided that the chances of the foundation moving was too small, and decided to stop the digging to prevent any more deaths.
	studentweb.engr.utexas.edu /chuj/Cover.htm (7038 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		John Roebling and his son Washington Roebling, the chief engineers of the project, knew that building the Brooklyn Bridge was a feasible task.
		Roebling chose to utilize the tension as support for a very large structure while using the least amount of material and accumulating the least amount of weight.
		Washington was forced to view the progress through a telescope and binoculars from the window of his home on the Brooklyn side of the river.[4] The engineer did several things to insure that his absence would not delay the building of the bridge.
	www.pitt.edu /~eng4/event.html (3122 words)

	Roebling Memorial
		Colonel Washington A. Roebling graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, as a civil engineer in the class of 1857; and he has long been considered by that institution one of its most eminent alumni.
		Colonel Roebling served his country (during the entire length of the Civil War, enlisting as a private the day after the attack on Fort Sumter, and being present as a colonel at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.
		Colonel Roebling collected minerals, as he did everything else, with that meticulous attention to detail which led him to study each individual specimen and to verify the correctness of its identification and locality.
	www.minsocam.org /MSA/collectors_corner/arc/roebling.htm (1115 words)

	National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
		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.
		John A. Roebling was the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge and is considered one of the greatest bridge builders of all times.
		Roebling began his career building suspension aquaducts for canals.
	www.mississippirivermuseum.com /fame/roebling.cfm (176 words)

	1905: Roebling, N.J. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Charles Roebling, the youngest brother, was the one who actually created the town that bears the family name.
		Louis Borbi, the grandfather and namesake of the present-day Lou Borbi, was among the tide of Roebling arrivals in 1917.
		Today, Roebling is a bedroom community of 3,800 whose industrial might belongs to the past — in the form of tourist brochures, walking tours and reunions of the plant workers.
	www.capitalcentury.com /1905.html (1423 words)

	Brooklyn Bridge
		Roebling later died of tetanus as a result of the injuries.
		With her husband's assistance, Emily Roebling studied higher mathematics and bridge engineering, and soon made daily visits to the bridge to oversee her husband's staff of engineers and builders.
		Emily Roebling was given the first ride over the completed bridge with a rooster, a symbol of victory, in her lap.
	www.nycroads.com /crossings/brooklyn (4258 words)

	American Icon: Incorporating Tension in the Brooklyn Bridge
		John Roebling's early efforts to establish himself as an American engineer demonstrated the subordinate and tenuous status of civil engineers fifty years prior to the Gilded Age.
		However, the bridges Washington built across the Rappahannock and Shenandoah rivers also contributed to his rapid ascent from private to colonel: by mid-century an engineer was worthy of promotion to officer.
		By this time, the elder Roebling had begun preliminary designs for the East River bridge, and the success of his plans rested on a technique in use across the Atlantic, pneumatic caissons.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA03/pricola/bridge/profession.html (1080 words)

	The Roebling Suspension Bridge
		Originally known as the Covington-Cincinnati Suspension Bridge, this masterpiece of engineering and architecture was designed and constructed under the supervision of John A. Roebling (1808-1869) and his son Washington (1837-1926).
		In 1896-98 the Suspension Bridge was reinforced (William Hildenbrandt, engineer) with an upper set of heavy cables and trusswork at the deck level in order to accommodate an urban railway, later replaced by interstate buses.
		Mary’s Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption (1894-1910; 12th NEC Madison; by Leon Coquardand David Davis), a masterful recreation of the west front of Notre Dame de Paris and the body of the Abbey Church of St. Denisnear Paris.
	www.daap.uc.edu /library/archcinci/2roebling.html (358 words)

	Emily Warren Roebling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Brooklyn Bridge was conceived of by John A. Roebling father of Washington A. Roebling.
		Washington came to rely on his wife to carry out his plans for the completion of the bridge.
		Today there are two plaques, one for each tower of the bridge honoring Emily Roebling for her outstanding achievement and undying dedication to the uprising of the Brooklyn Bridge.
	www.engr.psu.edu /wep/EngCompSp98/SDixon/body.html (463 words)

	Prentice Hall fakes a newspaper article and ascribes the fake to 'The New York Times'
		Roebling also had returned from the bridge immediately after escorting her "bridge party" to their places, and was not feeling very well during the afternoon.
		Roebling and "her share of the honors of the bridge." And you know that their line is phony: They have mangled the text that appeared in the Times by eliminating the information that Mrs.
		Roebling hadn't felt well during the afternoon and that she had needed to regain her strength before she could carry on.
	www.textbookleague.org /113roeb.htm (2145 words)

	BBC - History - The Brooklyn Bridge and a Marriage of Equals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Over the next 11 years, Emily Roebling was the public face of the Brooklyn Bridge, whilst Washington observed proceedings from the windows of their house in Brooklyn Heights.
		If Washington had not married such a strong-minded and intelligent woman, he might have fallen prey to politicking and betrayal.
		Emily had assumed her husband would retire from public life once the bridge was finished, and that he would spend time recovering quietly in the company of his wife and their son, John.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/society_culture/industrialisation/brooklyn_bridge_04.shtml (455 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 . For Educators \| PBS
		Washington Roebling supervised the project to completion despite fires, accidents, industrial corruption, and flagging popular support.
		Despite the vigilance of Washington Roebling, accidents, fires, and fraud by a cable contractor delayed construction.
		Emily Warren Roebling www.engr.psu.edu/wep/EngCompSp98/SDixon/body.html Describes the wife of Washington A. Roebling who, during her husband's illness, supervised construction, reported on the project to her husband, and dealt with political officials and the press.
	www.pbs.org /kenburns/brooklynbridge/educators (2117 words)

	Today in History: June 12
		In 1869, Roebling died from tetanus he had contracted in an accident on the bridge pilings.
		From 1870 on, Roebling's son and partner, Washington A. Roebling, supervised construction.
		Washington Roebling was among many workers permanently impaired by the then little understood "caisson disease."
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jun12.html (549 words)

	American Icon: Incorporating Tension in the Brooklyn Bridge
		From a young age Washington, demonstrated the same studiousness, if not innate genius and vision, as his father; he also demonstrated the elder's calm composure, though Washington was generally regarded as more personable.
		Washington's unwavering dedication to the project, however, convinced the majority of trustees otherwise, and in a vote of 10 to 7, he stayed.
		Washington, of course, watched most of the festivities from his window, but even he partook of the celebration for Emily ensured that her husband was not overlooked.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA03/pricola/bridge/print.html (7568 words)

	BUILDING BIG: Databank: Brooklyn Bridge
		The project was taken over and seen to its completion by his son, Washington Roebling.
		Three years later, Roebling developed a crippling illness called caisson's disease, known today as "the bends." Bedridden but determined to stay in charge, Roebling used a telescope to keep watch over the bridge's progress.
		Although he was physically able to leave his apartment, Washington Roebling refused to attend the opening celebration honoring his remarkable achievement.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/brooklyn.html (339 words)

	Emily's Bridge
		Emily and Washington exchanged letters for a period of time and were married January 18, 1865.
		Washington was equal to the task and that same year of 1869 got off to a good start.
		Although he was unable to leave his bed, Washington Roebling wanted to continue to direct the construction of the bridge from his room.
	www.pausingtoremember.net /Emily's_Bridge.html (975 words)

	Mineralogical Society of America
		The Roebling Medal is the highest award of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) for scientific eminence as represented primarily by scientific publication of outstanding original research in mineralogy.
		The science of mineralogy is defined broadly for purposes of the Roebling Medal, and a candidate need not qualify as a mineralogist; rather his or her published research should be related to the mineralogical sciences and should make some outstanding contribution to them.
		The recipient of the Roebling medal receives a 2-inch diameter, 14-carat gold engraved medal, an identical medal in bronze, and is made a Life Fellow of the Society.
	www.minsocam.org /MSA/Awards/Roebling.html (913 words)

	Women in Transportation - Bridge Construction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At the opening ceremonies, Congressman Abram S. Hewitt praised Emily Roebling for her role in serving as the link between Washington A. Roebling and the construction crew.
		Emily Roebling became the surrogate Chief Engineer for the bridge between 1872 and its opening in 1883.
		Washington A. Roebling, fell victim to caisson disease (decompression sickness) during construction of the Manhattan caisson, 24 meters (78 feet) beneath the surface of New York's East River.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /wit/bridgec.htm (177 words)

	Hour of Power
		John Roebling was the engineer with the idea of bridging the river and tying Manhattan Island with Brooklyn.
		But John Roebling and his son, Washington, figured out how the problems could be solved and how the obstacles would be overcome.
		And then, as construction began, John Roebling was killed on the job and in the same accident, Washington suffered the bends underneath the water.
	www.hourofpower.org /devotions/00august/080700.html (236 words)

	John A. Roebling Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Roebling located his wire rope-making factory in Trenton because of the city's proximity to his iron source, the Cooper Iron Works.
		The company, Roebling and Sons, continues to build many of the nation's finest suspension bridges, using the same wire technology that Roebling developed.
		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.
	www.loc.gov /bicentennial/propage/NJ/nj-4_h_smith2.html (223 words)

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