Two men standing on a high catwalk, surveying the construction of the Brooklyn BridgeMuseum of the City of New York/Getty Images The history of the Brooklyn Bridge is filled with death, disease, and ...

On Dec. 3, 1870, construction began on a suspension bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn that was the crowing feat of a brilliant civil engineer from Trenton who died before the first brick was laid.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Collection documents the work of the John A. Roebling's Sons Company, builders of bridges. The materials consist primarily of photograph albums ...

His father, John Augustus Roebling, the millionaire wire manufacturer from Trenton and the designer of the East River Bridge, had died three years before. A freak accident had necessitated the ...

A new park in Brooklyn, Emily Roebling Plaza, will be dedicated to the woman who completed the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Several generations of the Roebling family were the forces behind ...

Last year, while covering the National Private Truck Council’s annual meeting in Cincinnati, OH, I literally stumbled upon a piece of history spanning the Ohio River: the John A. (for “Augustus”) ...

Engineers estimated that it would take them four years to hang a bridge across the Golden Gate. Last week exactly half that time had elapsed since a $35,000,000 bond issue was voted to finance the ...

COVINGTON, Ky. -- Jack-o'-lanterns will get extra help lighting the night this Halloween: The necklace lights on the John A. Roebling Bridge will be turned at 8 p.m. Oct. 31. The decorative lights, ...