roebling family and the brooklyn bridge

Brooklyn Bridge was built in 1867 and at the time was the longest suspension bridge in the world at 1,057 feet, as well as the tallest. its center span rise 119 feet above the river at high tide,the supporting towers is 273 feet high,John A. Roebling begun to design the Brooklyn Bridge project in 1869,a projet which completed 14 years later.
John A. Roebling is the designer and civil engineer for the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City,John A. Roebling is Born in Muhlhausen, Prussia, Germany,he is a graduate of the Royal Polytechnic School of Berlin, Roebling was injured while surveying the property and died of tetanus before the bridge was built, His son, Washington Roebling completed the design and briefly supervised the engineering, but he also died. Fourteen years after it began, the project was completed by Washington Roebling's wife, Emily Warren Roebling