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    John Augustus Roebling (born Johann August Röbling; June 12, 1806 – July 22, 1869) was a German-born American civil engineer. He designed and built wire...
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    Herting) and John A. Roebling, Washington was born in 1837 in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, a town co-founded by his father and his uncle, Carl Roebling. His early...
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  • shareholder in the family business, John A. Roebling's Sons. Roebling was born to Washington Roebling and Emily Warren Roebling on November 21, 1867, in Mühlhausen...
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    New Jersey, in 1881 into the prominent Roebling family of American Industrialists, to Charles (1849–1918) Roebling and Sarah Mahon Ormsby (1856–1887), he...
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    dedicated to the memory of Emily Warren Roebling, her husband Washington Roebling, and her father-in-law John A. Roebling. In 2018 The New York Times published...
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    Ellet Jr., and John Augustus Roebling. All submitted designs for a suspension bridge. At the time of the bidding, Ellet and Roebling were acknowledged...
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    great-grandson of John A. Roebling, who began the design of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the grandson of Colonel Washington A. Roebling and Emily Warren Roebling, who...
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    construction of the current span, designed by John A. Roebling. The project's chief engineer, his son Washington Roebling, contributed further design work, assisted...
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    Emily Roebling was the daughter of Charles Gustavus Roebling and Sarah (or Sallie) Ormsby Mahon Roebling. Her father was an engineer, president of John A...
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    Parker. Donald Roebling was the great-grandson of John Augustus Roebling who designed the Brooklyn Bridge, and grandson of Washington Roebling who was in...
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    Western Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1832 by F. Carl Roebling and his younger brother John as a German farming colony. The population of Saxonburg...
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    and his wife, Emily Roebling Cadwalader, was an heiress to the Roebling fortune. Emily was the granddaughter of John Augustus Roebling, chief engineer and...
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    was completed in 1870. The company commissioned a firm owned by John Augustus Roebling in Trenton, New Jersey, to supply the bridge's cables and steelwork...
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  • Building – Chicago Jacobs Field – Cleveland, Ohio John Deere World Headquarters – Moline, Illinois John Hancock Center – Chicago Johnson Wax Building –...
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  • episode examines the family that built it—John Augustus Roebling, who designed the bridge; his son, Washington Roebling, who took over construction following...
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  • conservationist John Augustus Roebling – civil engineer, one of the pioneers in the construction of suspension bridges Washington Roebling – civil engineer...
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    May 20 – John Stuart Mill, British philosopher (d. 1873) June 12 – John Augustus Roebling, German-American engineer (d. 1869) June 27 – Augustus De Morgan...
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  • chief engineer Washington Roebling suffered from caisson disease. (He took charge after his father John Augustus Roebling died of tetanus.) Washington's...
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  • Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, German scholar (died 1876) 12 June – John Augustus Roebling, German-American engineer (died 1869) 22 July – Johann Kaspar Zeuss...
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    Stanley S. Schodowski Joseph V. Milo 1992 Murrae Bowden, Larry F. Thompson John D. Geberth, Jr. Gideon Goldstein August F. Manz Victor Palinczar Ross C....
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    bridge was a wire-rope suspension bridge, similar to those used by John Augustus Roebling. James D. Decker, then the Sullivan County sheriff and former Lumberland...
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  • Skinner Richard Venture as Brevard Holt John McIntire as Judge Dudley McCormack Penny Fuller as Marci Holt Paul Roebling as Percy Holt CCH Pounder as Priscilla...
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  • Gouverneur K. Warren Emily Warren Roebling seventh generation William Rockhill Nelson Homer Augustus Nelson John A. Roebling II eight generation Richard Nelson...
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    Homer Augustus Nelson (August 31, 1829 – April 25, 1891) was an American politician and soldier from the state of New York. He served one term in the U...
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    film directed by Simon Stone, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by John Preston. In late 2020, she was cast to play Pamela Anderson in the miniseries...
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    industrialist, and owner of the West Point Foundry. His sister, Emily Warren Roebling, would later play a significant role in building the Brooklyn Bridge. He...
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    Gouverneur K. Warren Emily Warren Roebling seventh generation William Rockhill Nelson Homer Augustus Nelson John A. Roebling II eight generation Richard Nelson...
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  • Gouverneur K. Warren Emily Warren Roebling seventh generation William Rockhill Nelson Homer Augustus Nelson John A. Roebling II eight generation Richard Nelson...
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    are winners of major mineralogy awards such as the Dana Medal and the Roebling Medal. Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific...
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  • civil engineer (died 1859) June 12 – John A. Roebling, German American bridge engineer (died 1869) June 27 – Augustus De Morgan, British logician (died 1871)...
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