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       Brooklyn Bridge: 1877
   DIR By: HowBrown1953
       Date: September 14, 2026, 6:11 am
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       From one of the New York FB pages I follow.....Hope you like it
       as much as I do.
       NEW YORK, 1877 - 90 meters above death
       Two men walk on a wooden board suspended by ropes over the East
       River. No belt, no net, no second chance.
       This is the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, seen from the
       side of Brooklyn facing towards Manhattan in the foreground.
       In 1877, the work entered its riskiest phase: the wiring of the
       four steel cables that would support the bridge.
       Each cable is made of 5,000 hand-braided steel wires.
       The bridge took 14 years to complete (1869-1883).
       Designer John Roebling died before he saw the work begin.
       His son Washington became paraplegic while working on the
       submerged foundations.
       It was his wife, Emily Roebling, who took over engineering and
       delivered the world's longest suspension bridge at the time.
       27 lives were lost here to connect two worlds. Today, 150 years
       later, 150,000 people cross it every day without remembering the
       effort it took to create the Brooklyn Bridge.
       Original P&B photo from 1877, colorized.
       In attachment
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