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Holly talks her infatuation with the show "Succession," and why Tracy might not like it. Tracy talks about a unique bridge designed by John Roebling. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Brooklyn Bridge, which was officially opened to New Yorkers 140 years ago this year, is not only a symbol of the American Gilded Age, it's a monument to the genius, perseverance and oversight of one family.This episode is arranged as a series of three mini biographies of three family members -- John Roebling, his son Washington Roebling and Washington's wife Emily Warren Roebling. Through their stories, we'll watch as the Brooklyn Bridge is designed, built and opened in 1883.PLUS: One more Roebling! Greg and Tom are joined in the studio by Kriss Roebling, the great, great-grandson of Washington and Emily Roebling. He shares his own surprising family stories -- and brings in some extraordinary artifacts from his family's past!Visit our website for more pictures and information about this showFURTHER LISTENING:That Daredevil Steve Brodie!The Queensboro Bridge and the Rise of a BoroughCrossing to Brooklyn: How The Williamsburg Bridge Changed New YorkThe George Washington Bridge

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Brooklyn Bridge designer John Roebling once said of his innovative design, “this structure will forever testify to the energy, enterprise and wealth of the community which shall secure its erection.” His son, Washington, and daughter-in-law, Emily, carried out his plan. Are you interested in learning about Ayn Rand's Objectivism? Check out our FREE ebook:

Check out the wondrous story of the greatest American infrastructure achievement of the 19th Century:  the Brooklyn Bridge.  Professor Greg Jackson of the wildly popular History That Doesn't Suck podcast joins the Infrastructure Junkies! to bring the story of our nation's greatest infrastructure marvel to life.  Listen to how the brilliant John Roebling identified the pressing need to connect Brooklyn with Manhattan in the mid 1800's and then conceived the engineering technique to accomplish this vision. A road supported by string?  Not quite, but this marvel still provides safe passage to over 100,000 people every day nearly a century and a half after completion.

“John Roebling has not the leisure to wait upon any man.” This is the story of a bridge and a family. John Roebling is weary of the oppressive, bureaucratic Prussian government. He's heard from his professor–Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel–that the United States is a land of opportunity. Those factors combined lead the driven über productive German to immigrate, where he introduces wire rope to his new adopted homeland and takes bridge building to another level. But can he span the great East River–in reality a saltwater tidal strait full of hazards–that divides the separate and distinct cities of Brooklyn and New York? He has an idea. But as he moves forward, this bridge will quickly become a deadly and life altering family affair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The beloved Brooklyn Bridge was one of the most daring feats of 19th Century engineering. The man who designed it was equally daring and a paradox of personality. Richard Haw of John Jay College talks about his fascinating new biography, "Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling."

The beloved Brooklyn Bridge was one of the most daring feats of 19th Century engineering. The man who designed it was equally daring and a paradox of personality. Richard Haw of John Jay College talks about his fascinating new biography, "Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling."

In the mid-19th century, suspension bridges were collapsing all across Europe. Their industrial cables frayed and snapped under the weight of their decks. So when German American engineer John Roebling proposed building the largest and most expensive suspension bridge ever conceived, New York City officials were understandably skeptical. Alex Gendler details the building of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge. [Directed by Jeremiah Dickey, narrated by Addison Anderson].

In our Season 1 finale we conclude our two part episode on the Brooklyn Bridge, and later in the episode we speak with Unit Managing Director with Mott McDonald, Chris Mealing, about his history as a bridge Engineer and how he sleeps at night! In part one of our Brookyn Bridge double feature we discussed some people who were a little crazy, and a little cool, but mostly both: The Roeblings. This family of Engineers were largely responsible for the design and construction of the bridge, which would be the first to span the East River. In part one we extensively discussed John and his son Washington Roebling, but only just touched on our first female Engineer of the podcast: Washington’s wife Emily Roebling. Despite the fact that Emily was not officially recognized as an Engineer at the time Emily completely took over the project after her husband fell ill with decompression sickness from an accident in the caissons. Emily managed contractors and construction officials over technical details while also managing the board of directors and the mayor of New York over commercial management of the project, and would be the first woman to address the American Society of Civil Engineers. After the completion of the bridge Emily would also go on to obtain a degree in Law from NYU. We also get into some greater detail on the construction of the caissons and the technical specs behind the bridge including the many redundancies built into the design. John Roebling had famously said that even if the cables snapped the bridge would not fall, which would prove to be particularly important when some of the materials would turn out to be counterfeit due to contractor negligence and lead to cables snapping in the 1980s. Later we speak with Chris Mealing, Unit Managing Director for Mott MacDonald. Chris began his career as a bridge engineer. We talk about the projects Chris is most proud of and how the scope and complexity of engineering projects have changed as the tools available to Engineers have become much more advanced: “We can brute force stuff today that would’ve had to have been done elegantly 30 or 40 years ago” Image Gallery: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Learn more at: MeasuredInMetric.com Edited by: Astronomic Audio Contact us: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

This week we’re discussing a topic that keeps Vivan up at night: bridges. In the first half of this two episode topic we’ll be learning about the world’s first steel wire suspension bridge, the iconic Brooklyn Bridge. The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge is a tale of three engineers, John Roebling, his son Washington Roebling, and his son’s wife Emily Warren Roebling. Prior to the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge from 1869 through 1883 there was no crossing from Brooklyn to Manhattan and all commuting was done by ferry. The local government would enter into a partnership similar to what we call a P3 today (Public Private Project), wherein a private entity would build the bridge, the government would own the bridge, and revenue from a toll booth on the bridge would be split between the private entity and the government. John Roebling was selected as the chief engineer for the project because of his prior bridge work and his company’s revolutionary iron and steel rope, and the strength of these materials would make the 1.8km long bridge possible. Unlike many of our engineering heroes in the 1800s John Roebling was not self-trained, and despite his impressive track record and strong materials his plans for the bridge would be met with great skepticism. To put the minds of concerned engineers at ease Roebling would host a page turn, essentially locking 7 skeptical engineers and industry professionals in a room and reviewing every page of the plans until they were satisfied, not unlike what Vivian does today! Ultimately the industry was satisfied but getting the local government on board with his plans would take more convincing and a group would be organized to tour four of his previous bridges. Ultimately they were convinced of the viability of his plans and construction would begin shortly afterwards. While surveying areas where the bridge would meet with the road system John Roebling would have his foot crushed by a ferry. This stubbornly tough engineer would agree to having his toes amputated but insisted upon having the procedure completed without anesthetic. As a believer in hydrotherapy he would attempt to treat the surgical wound by pouring water on his feet day and night, but ultimately he would succumb to infection and die just 28 days later. Upon his death his son Washington Roebling would be assigned to take over the project and despite being only 32 years old at the time he was enormously respected for being not only technically competent and great with details, but also much humbler than his father. Washington Roebling and his wife Emily Warren Roebling had previously been sent to Europe to research the use of pressurized caissons as a method for building bridge foundations underwater. These workshop-diving-bell hybrids would be the cause of many deaths during the construction of the bridge, primarily as a result of decompression sickness which had not yet been discovered. Washington Roebling himself would suffer a grave accident as the result of the caissons and decompression sickness when a fire broken out in one of the caissons in 1870 and he would go down into the caisson himself to help fight the fire and direct the firefighting efforts. He would experience some aches and pains coming back out and would head back down the next day with the fire still burning. The result of his repeated long trips would be crippling decompression sickness that left him bed ridden for the remaining 13 years of his life. At this point his wife Emily Warren Roebling would step up to become what we would today call the Field Engineer. She would become the eyes and ears of her husband, and was involved in every step of the construction, including working with the local government to justify the overrun of the original $5M budget and the request of an additional $8M to complete the project. The first female engineer of our podcast would be honoured at the unveiling of the bridge: “The bridge was an everlasting monument to the sacrificing devotion of a woman and her capacity for that higher education from which she has been so long and too long been disbarred” Next episode in our season finale we’ll be speaking with an actual bridge engineer about the science of how it was constructed and how we construct bridges today. Image Gallery: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Learn more at: MeasuredInMetric.com Edited by: Astronomic Audio Contact us: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

[EPISODE] A Tale of Two Bridges Join me as we travel across the East River on two of New York's famous bridges: the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge. My guests will be Joyce Gold, founder of a Joyce Gold History Tours, and Justin Rivers, Chief Experience Officer and lead tour guide of Untapped Cities. Segment 1 Jeff welcomes his first and returning guest, Joyce Gold as they begin to talk about tonight’s topic: bridges in the big city. Specifically, talking about the Brooklyn Bridge and the Queensboro Bridge. Joyce mentions how the Brooklyn Bridge was not always called that. Joyce talks about not just the bridges but the ferries that first went from Brooklyn to Manhattan. She continues about how the Brooklyn Bridge came to be and the man who wanted to build it. Joyce talks about the trials and tribulations of that came with the actual building of the bridge Segment 2 Joyce talks about the Roebling and how they were in charge of creating the Brooklyn Bridge. She mentions how the family actually invented a type of steel wire that was incredibly strong, John Roebling’s family wanted the bridge to connect the past and future. Joyce talks about how the city of Brooklyn paid for the construction. Joyce talks about how people got around in Manhattan versus Brooklyn and mentioned that most in Brooklyn would use the trolleys. Joyce also talks about how the creation of the bridge actually changed the neighborhood and where people moved. Segment 3 Jeff brings on his next guest, Justin Rivers. Justin talks about his background, growing up in New Jersey and starting tours in New York City. One of Justin’s first tours was actually about Penn Station. Jeff and Justin talk about the origins of the Queensboro Bridge, and why they first created in it the first place. Justin talks about how Queens was very underdeveloped, and how the bridge got more people to move there. Segment 4 Justin talks about the Queensboro and compares it to the Tappen Zee bridge and how they were both revolutionary. Jeff asks about the engineering challenges of a double decker bridge. Justin talks about the shift of labor unions and how they were main way things were getting built. Justin also mentions an almost, bombing of the bridge while it was getting built. He moves on to talk about the original names of the bridge. Justin talks about different stories the bridge has had in the past, and what it means to New York.

Author Erica Wagner, a New York City native, celebrates the story of constructing the Brooklyn Bridge in her book, Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge. Nearly 150 years after being built, the Brooklyn Bridge remains a wonder. Notably, its iconic image is still displayed on tourist brochures, film posters, and even Italian chewing gum wrappers. In fact, many consider the Brooklyn Bridge one of the greatest symbols of 19th-century progress, and how it was made is a dramatic tale of vision, innovation, and endurance in the face of extraordinary odds. Although she never knew Roebling personally, Wagner, at age sixteen, fell in love with the bridge’s engineer Washington Roebling, carrying his picture in her wallet for decades and even to this day! However, writing his biography, though a great pleasure, required her to understand not only literature but also to become steeped in engineering and history. When David McCullough published The Great Bridge in the early 1970s, he was surprised no one had written a biography of the great Washington Roebling. Yet, at that time, even McCullough did not have access to the writings of Roebling. Those would not come to light until the early 2000s when they were discovered in the archives of Rutgers University in Trenton, New Jersey, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York. So, Wagner, being a lifelong aficionado of Roebling, seized the opportunity to study his memoir, which was very intertwined with the life of his tyrannical father John A. Roebling, the bridge’s designer. Finally, out of Wagner’s intensive research emerged the biography, Chief Engineer. Washington Roebling was frustrated all his life by the confusion between himself and his father John Roebling, a great and famous engineer who got the contract to build the Brooklyn Bridge. John A. Roebling’s invention of steel wire cables made the family’s fortune and allowed him to build suspension bridges. Early in the project, John Roebling had an accident and died 10 days later of tetanus, leaving the mammoth construction project to his son Washington. When he became sick with “caisson disease,” Washington and his wife Emily became close business partners by default with Emily acting as his intermediary at the engineering site. The original four cables, now over 135-years-old, are still holding up the Brooklyn Bridge. Washington Roebling’s great passion was not engineering but was, in fact, geology and mineralogy, and his mineral collection was donated to the Smithsonian Museum. QUOTES FROM WAGNER “All of his life, his father’s reputation got in the way of him, and people were always confusing him and his father to his great annoyance.” “Washington Roebling didn’t have a choice; he was raised to be his father’s lieutenant.” “Any structure is only as good as the maintenance devoted to it. Infrastructure has to be maintained…you don’t just pay for it once.” BUY Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge  RECOMMENDATIONS A children's nonfiction book about bridges, complete with illustrations, photos, and historical material: BUY 13 Bridges Children Should Know by Brad Finger Our podcast with Brad Finger discussing several children's nonfiction books he has written for Prestel Publishing Original movies made by Thomas Edison from the train crossing the Brooklyn Bridge https://bit.ly/2U1RYaV https://bit.ly/2tpMefe For weekly updates, join our email list! Follow us on social media! Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube Special thanks… Music Credit Sound Editing Credit  

Crowded, chaotic and dangerous. Human traffic jams plagued the Brooklyn Bridge this holiday season, leading one resident to call for a tax on tourists crossing the famed overpass. Many complain that the bridge’s jammed promenade is at an all-time worse, but an expert on the bridge’s history claims the landmark has been experiencing overcrowding since its opening. We’ll be hearing from a transit buff and an acclaimed author on ways to alleviate the congestion.

May 24, 2018 - That boy, John Roebling, bridging the gaps in NYC.

The Roebling Suspension Bridge is one of the most iconic sights in cincinnati ...And in this episode of Unpmropted, Kathrine Nero and Chris Riva explore three different viewpoints of the bridge.Just a block or so from the foot of the bridge in Covington is a store that's now Roebling Point Books and Coffee Company. The independent book store and publishing company started as the offices for John Roebling in the 1800's as the bridge was being built. Owner Richard Hunt sells and publishes books on Covington and CIncinnati history, and on the history of the Roeblings - and his famous bridge.Next stop: a visit with Henry Peters at the Ascent at Roebling's Bridge. The swirling, contorted blue and white condo building was constructed as a modern, vertical equivalent to Roebling's Civil-War era bridge. Peters is with the non-profit group that makes sure the Roebling looks its best, mantaining the famous necklace lights that make this bridge so beautiful in pictures and video.And that brings us to Dwayne Slavey, a photojournalist at WCPO 9 On Your Side and Dwayne Slavey Photography. Many of us have snapped a couple of pictures of the bridge on our phones, posted them to Instagram and called it a day. But Slavey takes a different angle; quite literally sometimes. Learn his tricks of the trade after years of taking photos and videos of one of the most photographed spots in Cincinnati and Covington.

The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge changed New York City forever, connecting the suburb to Manhattan, and establishing the borough as a vital part of the city's life and culture. It's easy to look at a bridge now and say, “Of course that bridge had to be built.” But why, exactly, did city leaders want to connect Brooklyn and Manhattan, how did the people who lived there at the time feel about it, and how did elephants help make the bridge a landmark? Today, my guest is Ariel Viera from Urbanist, who you may remember walked us through the history of Central Park in episode 14. Also, there are river pirates. Ariel lives and breathes the history of New York, and the stories he has about the Brooklyn Bridge will have you looking at the city in a whole new way. BBB: Before the Brooklyn Bridge In the mid-1800s, there were two separate cities: Brooklyn and New York (what we now call Manhattan). And to get from one to the other, you'd have to take a ferry. But as Ariel told me, New York's traffic troubles go back to before the time of taxicabs: The East River was full of ships going from port to port, and a ferry had to contend with that marine traffic. And there were many ferries going back and forth, from street to street, in Brooklyn Heights and Manhattan, and the system became a bit cumbersome. So, Brooklyn actually proposed building a bridge which, because of the width of the East River, was not going to be easy. How John Roebling designed the Brooklyn Bridge The East River is actually wider than the Thames, known for its many bridges, so the engineering problem of spanning the river while still allowing boat traffic was a vexing one. Enter architect John Roebling, who had created a steel wire much stronger than what had been used for bridges before. He had the brilliant idea to use that wire to build a bridge strong enough to reach from shore to shore. But what's interesting is that even if the engineering required innovation, many criticized the bridge's design as too plain. But as Ariel tells me, that was actually done on purpose, and the story behind that decision is fascinating. The building of the bridge The ironic tragedy of John Roebling's life is that it was cut short before the Brooklyn Bridge was built. He was actually crossing the East River on a ferry when a cargo load fell on his leg, and he would later die of complications from the injury. His death came in 1869, the same year construction began on the bridge. Luckily, his son Washington was establishing himself as an architect, and he was able to take over the project. But the building of the bridge took all the way from 1869 to 1883 and wasn't without incident. As Ariel told me, there were problems with workers going so deep into the river to secure the bridge, and Washington Roebling himself suffered paralysis from going so deep when the caissons were being placed. But the Roebling family endured, and you'll want to hear what Washington's wife, Elizabeth, did next. Making its mark As Ariel tells me, the first few years of the bridge were tumultuous. People flocked to it to cross it, others didn't trust that it was safe. Shortly after its opening, a woman on the bridge screamed that the bridge was collapsing, and 12 people died in the stampede that ensued. That brought out P.T. Barnum, who marched his elephants across the bridge to demonstrate how safe it was. And those are just a few of the stories Ariel told me in this really fun, funny history lesson about the Brooklyn Bridge. You'll have to listen if you want to hear about those pirates. Outline of This Episode [3:32] Ariel's biggest surprise covering NYC [6:31] How Ariel became interested in the Brooklyn Bridge [7:30] Before the Brooklyn Bridge [10:32] What went into the design [12:24] The building of the Brooklyn Bridge [15:27] Incidents during the building process [16:42] The story of Elizabeth Roebling [17:43] What happened when it first opened [22:05] How the bridge became a part of New York life [26:52] The bridge's secret compartments [28:07] East River pirates Resources & People Mentioned Urbanist Ariel on Facebook Ariel on Twitter Ariel on Instagram Ariel's video at the Player's Club Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge My post about Hamilton and Trinity Church Connect With Stephanie stephanie@historyfangirl.com https://historyfangirl.com Support Stephanie on Patreon Featuring the song “Places Unseen” by Lee Rosevere More info and photographs for this episode at: https://historyfangirl.com/the-brooklyn-bridge/

(Samantha) According to a plaque on the Brooklyn Bridge “back of every great work we can find the self-sacrificing devotion of a woman.” Indeed, when John Roebling died and his son, Washington, was struck ill, it was Washington’s young wife, Emily Warren Roebling, who worked day and night to ensure that the Brooklyn Bridge was built.

Three days into 1870, John Roebling began work on a suspension bridge that would connect Manhattan to Brooklyn for the first time.  It was a project that would take more than thirteen years and cost the lives of almost thirty workers....and would take his own life. Talk about it here: http://edgy.es/fbgroup

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I will finish my interview with historian Clifford Zink who wrote The Roebling Legacy and bring you 10 more characteristics that made John Roebling a great engineer. In this second half of the interview, Clifford discussed Roebling’s projects and proposals and how he exhibited these characteristics […] The post TECC 38: The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – 18 Characteristics that made John Roebling one of the Greatest Engineers of All Time – Part 2 of 2 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I visit the Roebling Museum and interview a historian who has written a book about John A. Roebling, one of the greatest engineers of all time to find out what made him great. This is the first half of the interview, which includes 8 of the […] The post TECC 37: The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – 18 Characteristics that made John Roebling one of the Greatest Engineers of All Time – Part 1 of 2 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

Having already completed several other suspension bridges throughout the eastern United States, German immigrant John Roebling set his sights on a bridge to connect Brooklyn and Manhattan, a project that would ultimately be his last. At one time the longest … Continue reading →