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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two men standing on a high catwalk, surveying the construction of the Brooklyn BridgeMuseum of the City of New York/Getty Images ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last Friday marked 130 years since the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. When it was built, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world, spanning the East River and connecting the city of New York ...

The history of the Brooklyn Bridge is filled with death, disease, and controversy. The main architect died before the bridge was even built, and several workers died in the process. Tools and ...