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dc.coverage.spatialSite: New York, New York, United Statesen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1869-1883 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorRoebling, John Augustusen_US
dc.creatorRoebling, Washington Augustusen_US
dc.date1869-1883en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-11T18:19:21Z
dc.date.available2013-01-11T18:19:21Z
dc.date.issued1869-1883en_US
dc.identifier182725en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2106en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/89700
dc.descriptionWest suspension towers, from the east; John Roebling was perhaps the single most important figure in the development of the modern suspension bridge. He graduated with a civil engineering degree from the Königliche Technische Hochschule, Berlin, in 1826 and emigrated to the USA in 1831. Roebling broke his own engineering record for world's longest span (over the Ohio River, 1856) in little more than a decade with the design for his greatest work, Brooklyn Bridge, spanning the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York (1869-1883). It remains a triumph of the structural art: the unprecedented length of span, 486 m between the towers, and the combination of the aerial grace of the steelwork with the mass and strength of the towers immediately gave the bridge the status of a national monument. Washington Roebling was appointed chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge on the death of his father in 1869. He was crippled with caisson disease (the bends) in 1872 after inspecting one of the bridge’s underwater chambers and was forced to supervise construction of the bridge by means of a telescope mounted in a room of his Brooklyn home and to rely on his wife, Emily Warren Roebling, to act as secretary and transmitter of messages to the field superintendents. The names of all three Roeblings are inscribed on the bridge. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/15/2010)en_US
dc.format.mediumsteel wire cables; limestone; granite; Rosendale cement.en_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectengineering and industrial designen_US
dc.subjectmanufacturingen_US
dc.subjectbridges (built works)en_US
dc.subjectGothic archesen_US
dc.subjectNineteenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectGothic Revivalen_US
dc.titleBrooklyn Bridgeen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-US-NY-BB-B1en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling) metalworkingen_US
vra.worktypebridge (built work)en_US
dc.contributor.displayJohn Augustus Roebling (American civil engineer, 1806-1869); Washington Augustus Roebling (American civil engineer, 1837-1926)en_US


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