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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 ...
Officially, Emily Warren Roebling was the first to cross the bridge. [174] The bridge opening was also attended by U.S. president Chester A. Arthur and New York mayor Franklin Edson, who crossed the bridge and shook hands with Brooklyn mayor Seth Low at the Brooklyn end. [175] Abram Hewitt gave the principal address. [176] [177]
It was a traveling circus, menagerie and museum of "freaks" that assumed various names: "P. T. Barnum's Travelling World's Fair, Great Roman Hippodrome and Greatest Show on Earth", and "P. T. Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth, and the Great London Circus, Sanger's Royal British Menagerie and the Grand International Allied Shows United" after an ...
His wife, Emily Warren Roebling, who had taught herself bridge construction, took over much of the chief engineer's duties including day-to-day supervision and project management. Although the couple jointly planned the bridge's continued construction, Emily successfully lobbied for formal retention of Washington as chief engineer.
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Emily Warren Roebling, (1843–1903), "the woman behind the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge" Nella Larsen, (1891–1964), "wrestled with race and sexuality in the Harlem renaissance" Ada Lovelace, (1815–1852), "mathematician who wrote the first computer program" Margaret Abbott, (1878–1955), "an unwitting olympic trailblazer"