Engineering America narrates how Johann August Röbling, the third child of a provincial German tobacconist, became John A. Roebling, world-renowned American engineer, wealthy manufacturer, and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge and other great engineering feats of nineteenth-century America.
Engineering America narrates how Johann August Röbling, the third child of a provincial German tobacconist, became John A. Roebling, world-renowned American engineer, wealthy manufacturer, and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge and other great engineering feats of nineteenth-century America.
Richard Haw is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. He is the author of The Brooklyn Bridge: A Cultural History and Art of the Brooklyn Bridge: A Visual History.
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* Acknowledgments * Introduction: "Fitting One's Self for the New World" * Part One: Novice (1806-1831) * Chapter 1: In Napoleon's Shadow (1806-1824) * Chapter 2: Berlin and the Culture of Revolution (1824-1825) * Chapter 3: Westphalia: Building Roads, Designing Bridges (1825-1829) * Chapter 4: Johann Etzler and the Mühlhausen Emigration Society (1829-1831) * Chapter 5: Across the Atlantic (1831) * Part Two: Apprentice (1831-1847) * Chapter 6: And out to Western Pennsylvania (1831-1832) * Chapter 7: Establishing Saxonburg (1832-1837) * Chapter 8: Internal Improvements (1838-1841) * Chapter 9: Making Wire Rope and the Wire Rope Industry (1840-1848) * Chapter 10: Private Life, Public Works (1844-1845) * Chapter 11: Rebuilding Pittsburgh: Finishing the Allegheny, Spanning the Monongahela (1845-1846) * Chapter 12: Setting the Future (1846-1847) * Part Three: Master (1848-69) * Chapter 13: Economies of Scale (1848-1852) * Chapter 14: Crossing Niagara (1846-48) * Chapter 15: Securing Niagara (1852-55) * Chapter 16: The Kentucky, Ohio and Allegheny (1856-1860) * Chapter 17: And the War Came (1861-1865) * Chapter 18: Unfinished Business (1863-1869) * Epilogue: "I am my own Judge" * Notes * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction: "Fitting One's Self for the New World" * Part One: Novice (1806-1831) * Chapter 1: In Napoleon's Shadow (1806-1824) * Chapter 2: Berlin and the Culture of Revolution (1824-1825) * Chapter 3: Westphalia: Building Roads, Designing Bridges (1825-1829) * Chapter 4: Johann Etzler and the Mühlhausen Emigration Society (1829-1831) * Chapter 5: Across the Atlantic (1831) * Part Two: Apprentice (1831-1847) * Chapter 6: And out to Western Pennsylvania (1831-1832) * Chapter 7: Establishing Saxonburg (1832-1837) * Chapter 8: Internal Improvements (1838-1841) * Chapter 9: Making Wire Rope and the Wire Rope Industry (1840-1848) * Chapter 10: Private Life, Public Works (1844-1845) * Chapter 11: Rebuilding Pittsburgh: Finishing the Allegheny, Spanning the Monongahela (1845-1846) * Chapter 12: Setting the Future (1846-1847) * Part Three: Master (1848-69) * Chapter 13: Economies of Scale (1848-1852) * Chapter 14: Crossing Niagara (1846-48) * Chapter 15: Securing Niagara (1852-55) * Chapter 16: The Kentucky, Ohio and Allegheny (1856-1860) * Chapter 17: And the War Came (1861-1865) * Chapter 18: Unfinished Business (1863-1869) * Epilogue: "I am my own Judge" * Notes * Index
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