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John Augustus Roebling II (November 21, 1867 – February 2, 1952) was an American civil engineer and philanthropist. Following his father's death, he became the largest individual shareholder in the family business, John A. Roebling's Sons.
John Augustus Roebling (born Johann August Röbling; June 12, 1806 – July 22, 1869) was a German-born American civil engineer. [1] He designed and built wire rope suspension bridges, in particular the Brooklyn Bridge, which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
The station was established in 1941 by Richard Archbold when his sponsorship of zoological research in New Guinea was curtailed by the outbreak of the Second World War in the Pacific region. Archbold acquired the initial land for the biological research station through his friend Donald Roebling from his father, John A. Roebling II . [ 3 ]
SS John A. Quitman: John A. Quitman: 1046 standard 23 April 1943: 2 June 1943: Scrapped 1973 SS John A. Rawlins: John A. Rawlins: 434 standard 19 October 1942: 27 November 1942: Wrecked in typhoon off Okinawa 1945, scrapped SS John A. Roebling: John A. Roebling: 1911 standard 19 October 1943: 13 November 1943: Sold private 1947, scrapped 1968 ...
The ship undertook a variety of functions during her first three and a half decades: private yacht for the Roebling family, patrol vessel in United States Navy service during World War II (as a "patrol yacht – coastal"; PYc-45), and research vessel for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service plying the Pacific from Alaska to Baja ...
John A. Roebling in 1866 or 1867. John A. Roebling, the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge, founded his steel wire manufacturing company on the site in 1849.The location, on the western side of the Chambersburg, now a neighborhood of Trenton, was chosen for its location alongside the Delaware and Raritan Canal, since buried underneath Route 129.
Washington Augustus Roebling (May 26, 1837 – July 21, 1926) was an American civil engineer who supervised the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, designed by his father John A. Roebling. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War as an officer at the Battle of Gettysburg .
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