Tag: Emily 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