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Emily Warren Roebling (September 23, 1843 – February 28, 1903) was an engineer known for her contributions over a period of more than 10 years to the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband Washington Roebling developed caisson disease (a.k.a. decompression disease) and became bedridden. She served as a liaison and supervisor of ...
Emily Warren Roebling is recognized as managing the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, and was the first person to cross the bridge at its opening ceremony in 1883. [21] Roebling's husband, Washington Roebling, worked as the chief engineer for the Brooklyn Bridge project until he fell ill of decompression sickness.
Roebling was born to Washington Roebling and Emily Warren Roebling on November 21, 1867, in Mühlhausen, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia where his father had been sent to study the use of caissons that were to be used in the construction of the foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge.
His son Washington Roebling was later named chief engineer of the project, but due to his further incapacity to work after suffering from 'the bends' while in a caisson on the river bed, his wife Emily Warren Roebling took over the project and it was completed in 1883. John Roebling is buried in the Riverview Cemetery in Trenton, New Jersey.
Emily Warren Roebling, one of the Chief Engineers for the Brooklyn Bridge. Ralph Modjeski, an engineer that spanned two eras - the railroad truss bridges to the suspension bridge. An example project is Broadway Bridge (Portland). John A. L. Waddell, of the most honored American Civil Engineers. An example project is the South Halstead Street ...
Emily Roebling was the daughter of Charles Gustavus Roebling and Sarah (or Sallie) Ormsby Mahon Roebling. [1] Her father was an engineer, president of John A. Roebling's Sons, a steel wire and cable company. [2] Her Prussian-born grandfather, John Augustus Roebling, was best known as the civil engineer behind the Brooklyn Bridge. [3]
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Emily Warren Roebling was the first to cross the bridge. The bridge's main span over the East River is 1,595 feet 6 inches ( 486.3 m) . The bridge cost $15.5 million to build (in 1883 dollars) and an estimated number of 27 people died during its construction.