Emily Roebling: Brooklyn Bridge Site Engineer and First Person To Cross
<p>Emily Roebling took the first carriage to cross the finished Brooklyn Bridge. The rooster beside her was for luck. Maybe he crowed, as she undoubtedly wanted to crow. Maybe her luck depended on his being a rooster, not a hen.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked-emily-warren-roebling.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>As she wrote to her son</em></a><em>, “I have more brains, common sense and know-how generally than have any two engineers, civil or uncivil, and but for me the Brooklyn Bridge would never have had the name Roebling in any way connected with it!”</em></p>
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