Woven into the beams and towers of the Brooklyn Bridge is the story of a woman who was up for a challenge. Emily Warren Roebling was the wife of Washington Roebling, the chief engineer of the ...

The Golden Gate Bridge's builders introduced many innovations, but perhaps the most impressive was the precise and efficient technique they used to construct the massive cables. The bridge's ...

The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge is an iconic Cincinnati feature, spanning 1,075 feet across the Ohio River. It was the longest bridge in the world when it was built in 1867 and utilized new ...

This bridge has eight spans 188 feet long, and the cables are 4 inches in diameter. Mr. Roebling contracted, in 1848, to erect four suspension aqueducts on the line of the Delaware and Hudson ...

In The Second International Congress on Construction History, pages 441–460, Cambridge, England. S.G. Buonopane. (2006) The technical writings of John A. Roebling and his contributions to suspension ...