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Who was the engineer that completed the Brooklyn Bridge?


Emily Warren Roebling 1843 - 1903

//“...It was common gossip that hers was the real mind behind the great work and that this the most monumental engineering triumph of the age was actually the doing of a woman, which as a general proposition was taken in some quarters to be both preposterous and calamitous. In truth, she had by then a thorough grasp of the engineering involved.” __The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge__ by David Mucullough//

The Encyclopedia of New York City New York** by Ric Burns
 * __Find materials in our library: 624.2, 624.4, 624__**
 * The Brooklyn Bridge** by Elaine Pascoe 624.2 PAS
 * Brooklyn Bridge** DVD 624.23 BRO
 * Bridges: from My side to yours** by Jan Adkins
 * The Brooklyn Bridge: a cultural history** by Richard Haw
 * Brooklyn Bridge: fact and symbol** by Alan Trachtenberg
 * Brooklyn Bridge: New York City's Graceful connection** by Vicki Weiner
 * The Great Bridge** by David McCullough
 * Built to Last** by George Sullivan
 * Dreams of Iron and Steel** by Deborah Cadbury
 * Thinking Big: America's greatest constructions

[|PBS website on the Brooklyn Bridge] **based on the** documentary by Ken Burns

__Possible sources of information__ The Brooklyn Engineers Club Emily Roebling was the first woman to address the American Society of Civil Engineers the **Emily Roebling Scholarship** is given to deserving female Engineering students at [|Rensselar Polytechnic University] in New York.

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