Engineer

Washington Roebling

1837-1926 · American · 1 places

Washington Roebling inherited the Brooklyn Bridge project after his father's death and supervised its construction from 1869 to 1883, enduring a devastating case of decompression sickness ("the bends") contracted during the underwater…

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