Martin, C. C., Report of the Chief Engineer and Superintendent of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, June 1, 1884. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1884.
Report of the Executive Committee of the New York Bridge Company, June 1, 1872. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1872.
Report of the Officers of the New York Bridge Company to the Board of Directors, February, 1875. Eagle Print, Brooklyn, 1875.
Reports of Assistant Engineers and Master Mechanic, 1875-1876.
Roebling, John A., Report of John A. Roebling, C.E., to the President and Directors of the New York Bridge Company, on the Proposed East River Bridge. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1870.
Roebling, Washington A., Communication from Chief Engineer W. A. Roebling, In Regard to the Method of Steam Transit Over the East River Bridge. March 4, 1878.
_____ First Annual Report of the Chief Engineer of The East River Bridge. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1870.
_____ Pneumatic Tower Foundations of the East River Suspension Bridge. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1872.
_____ Report of the Chief Engineer to the Board of Directors of the New York Bridge Company, June 5, 1871. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1871.
_____ Report of the Chief Engineer of the East River Bridge on Prices of Materials and Estimated Cost of the Structure. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, June 28, 1872.
_____ Report of the Chief Engineer of the New York Bridge Company, 1874. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1874.
_____ Report of the Chief Engineer of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, January 1, 1877. Eagle Print, Brooklyn, 1877.
_____ Report of the Chief Engineer on the Strength of the Cables and Suspended Superstructure of the Bridge, Made to the Board of Trustees, January 9, 1882.
_____ Report of the Chief Engineer on the Tests of the Samples of Wire, 1876.
_____ Third Annual Report of the Chief Engineer, June 1, 1872. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1872.
Smith, Andrew H., M.D., The Effects of High Atmospheric Pressure, Including the Caisson Disease. Eagle Book and Job Printing Department, Brooklyn, 1873.
Specifications for Anchor Plates, New York Anchorage, East River Bridge, 1875.
Specifications for Corners, Facing and Archstone, of Granite, Required for the New York Anchorage, East River Bridge, 1875.
Specifications for Cut Face-stone, Backing and Archstone of Limestone, Required for the New York Anchorage, East River Bridge, 1875.
Specifications for Cut Face-stone and Backing, Limestone and Granite, Required for the New York Anchorage, East River Bridge, 1875.
Specifications for Granite Cut Stone, Required for the Parapets at the roadway, Brooklyn and New York Towers, East River Bridge, 1876.
Specifications for Granite Face-stone and Archstone, Required for the New York Tower, East River Bridge, April, 1875.
Specifications for Iron Anchor Bars, New York Anchorage, East River Bridge, April, 1875.
Specifications for Saddles and Saddle-Plates for the Brooklyn and New York Towers, East River Bridge, 1874.
Specifications for Steel Cable Wire, for the East River Suspension Bridge—1876.
Specifications for Wire Ropes for the East River Bridge.
Farrington, E. F., Concise Description of the East River Bridge, with Full Details of the Construction. (Pamphlet) C. D. Wynkoop, New York, 1881. Republished in 1969 by Boro Book Store, Brooklyn.
Green, S. W., A Complete History of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge from its Conception in 1866 to its Completion in 1883, with Sketches of the Lives of J. A. Roebling, W. A. Roebling, and H. C. Murphy. (Pamphlet) New York, 1883.
An Illustrated Description of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge. (Pamphlet) Published by John A. Roebling’s Sons, Trenton, no date.
New York and Brooklyn Bridge Proceedings, 1867-1884. Brooklyn, 1885. (This thick invaluable volume contains the only records kept of the meetings of the directors—later the trustees—of the Bridge Company, the meetings of the Executive Committee, lists of the stockholders at various periods during the construction of the bridge, lists of real estate purchased, plus all other reports, letters, etc., emanating from the Bridge Company during the time from May 1867 to June 1884.)
Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn, 1883.
Report of the Board of Consulting Engineers to the Directors of the New York Bridge Company. The Standard Press Print, Brooklyn, 1869.
Schuyler, Montgomery, “The Bridge as a Monument.” Harper’s Weekly, May 24, 1883. Also included in Lewis Mumford’s Roots of Contemporary American Architecture, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York, 1952; paperback edition, Grove Press, New York, 1959.
Testimony in the Miller Suit to Remove the East River Bridge. Albany, 1879.
Trachtenberg, Alan, Brooklyn Bridge; Fact and Symbol. (An excellent analysis of the bridge as a cultural symbol in America.) Oxford University Press, New York, 1965.
Works Relating to John A. and Washington A. Roebling
There is no first-rate biography of either John A. or Washington A. Roebling. The closest thing to it and the one reliable source of family history is The Roeblings; A Century of Engineers, Bridgebuilders and Industrialists by Hamilton Schuyler, Princeton University Press, 1931. Other works consulted were these:
Farrington, E. F., A Full and Complete Description of the Covington and Cincinnati Suspension Bridge with Dimensions and Details of Construction. Cincinnati, 1867.
John A. Roebling. An Account of the Ceremonies at the Unveiling of a Monument to His Memory; Address by H. Estabrook. Roebling Press, Trenton, 1908.
Roebling, John A., Diary of My Journey from Muehlhausen in Thuringia via Bremen to the United States of North America in the Year 1831, trans. by Edward Underwood. Roebling Press, Trenton, 1931.
_____ Final Report of John A. Roebling, Civil Engineer, to the President and Directors of the Niagara Falls Suspension and Niagara Falls International Bridge Companies. Rochester, N. Y., 1855
_____ “The Great Central Railroad from Philadelphia to St. Louis.” American Railroad Journal, Special Edition, 1847.
_____ “Letters to Ferdinand Baehr, 1831.” Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, June 1935.
_____ Long and Short Span Railway Bridges. (Includes an introduction by Washington Roebling.) D. Van Nostrand, New York, 1869.
_____ Report to the President and Board of Directors of the Covington and Cincinnati Bridge Company. Trenton, 1867.
Roebling, Washington A., Early History of Saxonburg. Trenton, 1924.
Steinman, D. B., The Builders of the Bridge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1945. (The author was a famous bridgebuilder himself and was long considered the authority on John A. Roebling. His book, however, was based on superficial research and contains many inaccuracies.)
Vogel, Robert M., Roebling’s Delaware and Hudson Canal Aqueducts. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 1971.
Books on Bridges and Bridgebuilders
Dorsey, Florence L., Road to the Sea. Rinehart & Company, New York, 1947.
Gies, Joseph, Bridges and Men. Doubleday and Company, Garden City, N. Y., 1963.
Gilbert, Ralph W., Jr., and Billington, David P., “The Eads Bridge and Nineteenth-Century River Politics.” Paper read at the First National Conference on Civil Engineering: History, Heritage and the Humanities, Princeton University, 1970.
Jacobs, David, and Neville, Anthony E., Bridges, Canals and Tunnels. American Heritage Publishing Company, New York, 1968.
Jakkula, A. A., A History of Suspension Bridges in Bibliographical Form. Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, College Station, Texas, 1941.
Kirby, Richard Shelton, and Laurson, Philip Gustave, The Early Years of Modern Civil Engineering. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1932.
Pope, Thomas, A Treatise on Bridge Architecture, in which the Su
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Steinman, David B., and Watson, Sara Ruth, Bridges and Their Builders, 2nd rev. ed. Dover Publications, New York, 1957.
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White, Joseph, and Von Bernewitz, M. W., The Bridges of Pittsburgh. Cramer Printing and Publishing Company, Pittsburgh, 1928.
Woodward, C. M., A History of the St. Louis Bridge. G. I. Jones and Company, St. Louis, 1881.
General Works
An Account of the Dinner by the Hamilton Club to Honor James S. T. Stranahan, December 13, 1888. Brooklyn, 1889. Collection of the Long Island Historical Society.
Adams, Henry, The Education of Henry Adams. Houghton Miffin Company, Sentry Edition, Boston, 1961.
Albion, Robert Greenhalgh, The Rise of New York Port (1815-1860). Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1939.
Andrist, Ralph K., ed., The Confident Years. American Heritage Publishing Company, New York, 1969.
Blake, William, History of Putnam County, New York. New York, 1849.
Botkin, B. A., ed., New York City Folklore. Random House, New York, 1956.
The Brooklyn City and Business Directory, 1869, 1870.
Brown, Dee, The Year of the Century: 1876. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1966.
Bryce, James, The American Commonwealth. Macmillan and Company, New York and London, 1895.
Buck, Solon J. and Elizabeth Hawthorn, The Planting of Civilization in Western Pennsylvania. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1939.
Butterfield, Roger, The American Past. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1966.
Callender, James H., Yesterdays on Brooklyn Heights. The Dorland Press, New York, 1927.
Callow, Alexander B., Jr., The Tweed Ring. Oxford University Press, New York, 1966.
Carnegie, Andrew, Autobiography. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1920.
Catton, Bruce, Grant Moves South. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1960.
_____ A Stillness at Appomattox. Doubleday and Company, Garden City, N. Y., 1954.
The City of Brooklyn. (A guidebook, probably written by Henry R. Stiles.) New York, 1871.
Condit, Carl W., American Building. University of Chicago Press, 1968.
Craig, Neville B., The Olden Time, Vol. I. Pittsburgh, 1846.
Davis, Andrew Jackson, Free Thoughts Concerning Religion. Boston, 1854.
_____ The Magic Staff, An Autobiography. New York, 1857.
Ellis, Edward Robb, The Epic of New York. Coward-McCann, New York, 1966.
Fiftieth Anniversary Program. Putnam County Historical Society.
Fiske, Stephen, Off-Hand Portraits of Prominent New Yorkers. George R. Lockwood and Son, New York, 1884.
Foster, L. H., Newport Guide. 1876.
Franco, Barbara, “The Cardiff Giant: A Hundred-Year-Old Hoax.” New York History, October 1969.
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Historical Sketch of the Fulton Ferry. Brooklyn, 1879.
History of Butler County, Pennsylvania. Waterman, Watkins and Company, Chicago, 1883.
Howard, Henry W. B., ed., History of The City of Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, 1893.
Johnston, Johanna, Mrs. Satan. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1967.
Josephson, Matthew, Edison. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1959.
Josephson, Matthew and Hannah, Al Smith, Hero of the Cities. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1969.
Kaplan, Justin, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1966.
Keller, Morton, The Art and Politics of Thomas Nast. Oxford University Press, New York, 1968.
W. C. Kingsley. Privately published, Brooklyn, 1885. Collection of the Long Island Historical Society.
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Lancaster, Clay, Old Brooklyn Heights. Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, Vt., 1961.
Lorant, Stefan, ed., Pittsburgh; The Story of an American City. Doubleday and Company, Garden City, N. Y., 1964.
Lyman, Colonel Theodore, Meade’s Headquarters. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1922.
Lynch, Denis Tilden, “Boss” Tweed. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
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Mumford, John Kimberly, Outspinning the Spider. New York, 1921.
Mumford, Lewis, Sticks and Stones. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1924.
_____ The Brown Decades. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1931.
Murphy, Mary Ellen, and others, eds., A Treasury of Brooklyn. William Sloane Associates, New York, 1949.
Nevins, Allan, Abram S. Hewitt. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1935.
_____ Grover Cleveland; A Study in Courage. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1932.
New York at Gettysburg, Vol. III. J. B. Lyon Company, Albany, 1900.
The Newport Directory, 1882.
Old Brooklyn Heights. Brooklyn Savings Bank, 1927.
Overton, Jacqueline, Long Island’s Story. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, N. Y., 1929.
Pelletreau, William S., History of Putnam County, New York. Philadelphia, 1886.
Roebling, Emily Warren, The Journal of the Reverend Silas Constant. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1903.
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Sandburg, Carl, Abraham Lincoln, The Prairie Years and The War Years. 1-vol. ed. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1954.
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Smith, Matthew Hale, Sunshine and Shadow in New York, J. B. Burr and Company, Hartford, 1868.
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_____ A History of the City of Brooklyn: Including the Old Town and Village of Brooklyn, the Town of Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburg. 3 vols. Brooklyn, 1867-1870.
Still, Bayrd, Mirror for Gotham. New York University Press, 1956.
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Sullivan, Louis, The Autobiography of an Idea. Dover Publications, New York, 1956.
Swanberg, W. A., Jim Fisk: The Career of an Improbable Rascal. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1959.
_____ Pulitzer. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1967.
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Taylor, Emerson Gifford, Gouverneur Kemble Warren. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1932.
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Wall, Joseph Frazier, Andrew Carnegie. Oxford University Press, New York, 1970.
Weld, Ralph Foster, Brooklyn Village, 1816-1834. Columbia University Press, New York, 1938.
Werner, M. R., Tammany Hall. Doubleday, Doran and Company, G
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Whitman, Walt, The Portable Walt Whitman. The Viking Press, New York, 1945.
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Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography. New York, 1888.
Bartlett, John, Familiar Quotations. Thirteenth and Centennial Edition, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1955.
Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1961. U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1961.
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Index
Accidents
Brooklyn Bridge on Brooklyn tower
on Brooklyn anchorage
during cable positioning
Great Blowout.
on promenade
coal mine (1869)
of J. Roebling,
See also Bends; Blowouts;
Casualties; Collapsed bridges
Fires
Adams, Col. Julius
Adams, Mrs. Julius
Adams, Henry
Adams, John,
Adams, John Quincy
Advocate (magazine)
Agnew, John T.
Air compressors
for Brooklyn caisson
for New York caisson
See also Compressed air
Air locks
bends and time spent in
“hospital lock,”
colds and bronchitis in
described
in Great Blowout
placement of
Air pressure, required
Albany Water Works
Alexandra (Empress of Russia)
Allegheny River Bridge (Pa.)
Allen, Horatio
maiden voyage of Brooklyn caisson
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