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Roebling   /rˈoʊblɪŋ/   Listen
Roebling

noun
1.
United States engineer (born in Germany) who designed and began construction of the Brooklyn bridge (1806-1869).  Synonyms: John Augustus Roebling, John Roebling.






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"Roebling" Quotes from Famous Books



... Straits of Messina, Sicily, from Point Pezzo, on the Calabrian Coast. It is to consist of four spans of 3,281 feet each, elevated about 150 feet above high-water level, so that the largest ships may pass under. The proposed Roebling bridge over the East River, between New York and Brooklyn, is to have a single span of ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various

... months, of which fifty were in Bridgeport, which was known to be a center of German activities. Explosions and fires at the plants of the Bethlehem Steel Company and the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and at the Roebling wire-rope shop in Trenton were ...
— Woodrow Wilson and the World War - A Chronicle of Our Own Times. • Charles Seymour

... to die for their country, but without the slightest ability to render efficient military service. These volunteers included clerks, business men, professional men from the cities of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, thousands of workmen from great factories like the Roebling wire works, thousands of villagers and farmers, all blazing with zeal, but none of them able to handle a high-power Springfield rifle or operate a range-finder or make the adjustments for the time-fuse ...
— The Conquest of America - A Romance of Disaster and Victory • Cleveland Moffett



Words linked to "Roebling" :   applied scientist, John Roebling, engineer, technologist



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