Talking about the history and foundation of the bridge, it was ridiculous that the short ferry ride from New York to Brooklyn, which usually took only ten minutes, should take so long. John Roebling, the engineer of the bridge who was not a man to be kept waiting, stood on the deck of the Fulton ferry with his fifteen year old son, Washington and glowered out at the gray East River chocked with ice. What the river needed was a bridge. Here it was 1852 and the only way to get the New York and the rest of the world from Brooklyn was still by boat across this treacherous E

John Roebling's bridge was to be the longest suspension bridge in the world by half again as much. It was to cross the East River on one arching span, with its roadway suspended by four huge cables hung in catenary curves from supporting saddles on the tops of two granite towers. Later, with his artist's touch John Roebling designed a wide boardwalk pedestrians, not beside the roadway traffic but as on other bridges but well above it.

Expressing both energy and movement, the bridge was considered the greatest engineering feat of the century. It was, in fact, called the Eight Wonder of the World. The Brooklyn Bridge marked a new era, and bridge building would never be the same again. As for the artistic possibilities of steel, the beauty of the Brooklyn Bridge was obvious. Its airy spiderweb of steel suspenders and stays and the graceful curve of its great cables contrasted with the solidity of its mammoth granite towers. However, more than an engineering feat and more than its physical beauty, the Brooklyn Bridge had become a uniting force It had, as promised, not only mastered nature, but it also represented in a profound and visual way all that was best in America in 1883.

Still, it was one thing to see it in paper another actually to stand on the muddy bottom of the East River. It was really astounding! No doubt, his caisson was a great success.

Then, he waited nine years and in 1866 again proposed a suspension bridge over the East River. A lot had happened during those years. The bloody Civil War had been fought and was now over. Times had changed. The Roebling family had changed, too. Washington, who was the oldest of John Roebling's seven living children, had grown up, and became a Union officer, served in the was and married. At that time, the people of Brooklyn clamoured fro a bridge. Newspapers took up the cry, Politicians joined the crusade and at last, On April 16, 1867, the New York legislature passed a bill crating a private company to raise money to construct an East River Bridge. It was the purpose of constructing and maint

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