Tag: Brooklyn Bridge

• Books I’ve Known And Loved

  Men and women of integrity, listen up! The popular opinion that most Americans during the Gilded Age were stealing land and involved in corrupt schemes has some holes in it. Maybe not too many–but some. Enter Washington and Emily Roebling. I’ve introduced them to you before from The Great Bridge, but damn they’re good. It’s…

  Adrienne Morris

  July 22, 2015

  Books I’ve Known and Loved, United States History

  Books, Brooklyn Bridge, David McCullough, engineers, Happy Marriages, heroes, Washington Roebling, Writing

• Engineers Are Sexy

  You remember Emily Warren Roebling from last week, don’t you? The woman who helped build the Brooklyn Bridge? Turns out her husband Washington Roebling was quite the catch. He may look like your average fair-to-middling college student here but he managed to master nearly one hundred different courses, including: Whew. Now this may not have…

  Adrienne Morris

  July 16, 2014

  Beautiful Images, Men, United States History

  19th century, 19th century engineering, Books, Brooklyn Bridge, Civil War Heroes, David McCullough, engineers, RPI, Sexy men, The Great Bridge, Washington Roebling

• And You Thought Women Couldn’t Build Bridges: Emily Warren Roebling

    Here’s a happy story for a change: During the Civil War Emily went to visit her brother then commanding the 5th Army Corps at his headquarters and fell madly in love with Washington Roebling, the son of John A. Roebling who designed the as yet to be built Brooklyn Bridge. Washington obviously felt the…

  Adrienne Morris

  June 26, 2014

  Beautiful Images, History, The Unknowable Past, Uncategorized, Women

  19th Century Women, Art, Brooklyn Bridge, Emily Roebling, engineers, Romance, Washington Roebling, women