Inspiration And Perspiration Behind The Brooklyn Bridge
In 1883, a creative engineer named John Augustus Roebling who was German immigrant and who had previously designed and constructed shorter suspension bridges (such as Roebling’s Delaware Aqueduct in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, Waco Suspension Bridge in Waco, Texas, and the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio) was inspired by an idea to build a…