TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wagner,Erica
TI  - Chief engineer: Washington Roebling, the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge 
SN  - 9781620400517
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
KW  - Roebling, Washington Augustus,
KW  - Civil engineers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - As much a part of the New York skyline as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge is instantly and internationally recognizable. Yet as iconic as it is, its builder, Washington Roebling, is too often forgotten. The Brooklyn Bridge took 14 dramatic years to complete and here the personal story which lies behind that construction is told for the first time. Meticulously researched, and written with revealing archival material only recently uncovered, this is an engaging and illuminating portrait of a brilliant and driven man, and of the era in which he lived
ER  -